Flight number record
DL 2090
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Minneapolis
- Route
- ATL → MSP
- Departs
- 09:55
- Flights
- 290
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2090, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2090 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 290 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2090's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 119 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 288 completed flights
Avg delay
48 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.69%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 290 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When DL 2090 flies
DL 2090 flies ATL to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:55, used on 97 of 290 flights, with 10:05 (48 flights) and 10:10 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 09:5597 flights33.4%
- Departs 10:0548 flights16.6%
- Departs 10:1032 flights11.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 09:55 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2090 runs 5 points better at 89.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2090 next to ATL to MSP
Every carrier on ATL to MSP combined arrived on time 79.9% of the time across 3,509 flights, so DL 2090 is 9 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,227 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2090thin sample | 290 | 89.2% | 48 min | 0.69% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MSP | 3,227 | 81.1% | 55 min | 0.40% | B+ |
| All carriers on ATL–MSP | 3,509 | 79.9% | 56 min | 0.43% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2090 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2090 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.6% in Jan–Mar 2026, 91.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 83.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202517 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.9%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2090 ranged from 83.3% on Saturday to 95.1% on Wednesday. With about 41 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2090 runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 19 of the 31 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 6 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early65 flights22.6%
- Within 15 min192 flights66.7%
- 15–29 min late19 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late6 flights2.1%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights1.0%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 288 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 36 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2090
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 April 2026, 3 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 April 2026 | 3 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 March 2026 | 2 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 January 2026 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 January 2026 | 1 hour 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 26 May 2026 | 1 hour 42 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2090 runs late
Carrier accounts for 61% of the 1,500 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Carrier
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 61%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 921 of the 1,500 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,500 delay minutes reported on DL 2090.
Cancellations are rare at 0.69%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 907 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including BOS to LGA (71), but none flew often enough under DL 2090 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to MSP only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 290 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking DL 2090
For a booking, DL 2090 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.2% on time and 0.69% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to ATL, the return direction
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A flight number here means Delta Air Lines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.