Flight number record
DL 2103
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Los Angeles
- Route
- MSP → LAX
- Departs
- 21:59
- Flights
- 264
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2103, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2103 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 264 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2103 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 46 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 260 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.52%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 264 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 2 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 2103 flies
DL 2103 flies MSP to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:59, used on 74 of 264 flights, with 21:30 (45 flights) next.
- Departs 21:5974 flights28.0%
- Departs 21:3045 flights17.0%
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 21:59 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2103 runs 3 points better at 72.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2103 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 2103 is 9 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2103thin sample | 264 | 72.7% | 56 min | 1.52% | C |
| 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 2103 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2103 held fairly steady: 66.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 75.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 73.6% 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202586 flights66.3%
- Jan–Mar 202618 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202678 flights75.6%
- Jul–Sep 202653 flights73.6%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2103 ranged from 67.5% on Sunday to 78.9% on Tuesday. With about 38 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2103 runs when it is late
The 71 late arrivals split 23 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early49 flights18.8%
- Within 15 min140 flights53.8%
- 15–29 min late23 flights8.8%
- 30–59 min late28 flights10.8%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights6.2%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 260 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 68 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. In the other direction, 18 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 2103
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 May 2026, 9 hours 26 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 August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2026 | 9 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 August 2026 | 2 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 August 2026 | 2 hours | Carrier |
| 4 August 2026 | 1 hour 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2103 runs late
Carrier accounts for 43% of the 3,984 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Carrier
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,719 of the 3,984 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,984 delay minutes reported on DL 2103.
Cancellations sit at 1.52% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including ATL to CHA (11) and CHA to ATL (11), but none flew often enough under DL 2103 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to LAX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 264 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 2103
For a booking, DL 2103 is one of the weaker ways to fly MSP to LAX: 9 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
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Where to go next
- MSP to LAX, every carrier and departure
- LAX to MSP, 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.