Flight number record
DL 2102
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Los Angeles
- Route
- MSP → LAX
- Departs
- 09:15
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2102, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2102 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2102's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 55 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights
Avg delay
50 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.37%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 2102 flies
DL 2102 flies MSP to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:15, used on 88 of 365 flights, with 09:17 (48 flights) next.
- Departs 09:1588 flights24.1%
- Departs 09:1748 flights13.2%
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 09:15 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2102 runs level with that at 82.8%. 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 2102 next to MSP to LAX
Every carrier on MSP to LAX combined arrived on time 81.5% of the time across 2,107 flights, so DL 2102 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2102 | 365 | 82.8% | 50 min | 1.37% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–LAX | 2,107 | 81.5% | 52 min | 1.00% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–LAX | 2,107 | 81.5% | 52 min | 1.00% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2102 quarter by quarter
DL 2102 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 75.0%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 73 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights75.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights80.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.3%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2102 did best on Tuesday at 94.2% on time and worst on Wednesday at 76.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2102 runs when it is late
DL 2102 often beats the schedule: 118 of 360 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 62 late arrivals split 29 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early118 flights32.8%
- Within 15 min180 flights50.0%
- 15–29 min late29 flights8.1%
- 30–59 min late17 flights4.7%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.1%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 360 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 47 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 24 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2102
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 May 2026, 3 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in May 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 June 2026 | 3 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 May 2026 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 November 2025 | 2 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 May 2026 | 2 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2102 runs late
Carrier accounts for 75% of the 3,074 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 75%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 3%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 75%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,306 of the 3,074 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,074 delay minutes reported on DL 2102.
Cancellations sit at 1.37% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.4% 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.
At 1,535 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 2102 in the data flew MSP to LAX. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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
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For a booking, read DL 2102 as 82.8% on time with 1.37% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.