Flight number record

DL 2103

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Los Angeles

Route: MSP → LAX
Departs: 21:30
Flights: 266
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about 55 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 266 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2103 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 55 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 262 completed flights

Avg delay

55 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.50%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 266 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.

Schedule

When DL 2103 flies

DL 2103 flies MSP to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:30, used on 46 of 266 flights, with 21:35 (34 flights) and 21:54 (29 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 21:3046 flights17.3%
Departs 21:3534 flights12.8%
Departs 21:5429 flights10.9%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 21:30 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2103 runs level with that at 72.1%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2103 next to MSP to LAX

Every carrier on MSP to LAX combined arrived on time 82.0% of the time across 2,156 flights, so DL 2103 is 10 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 10 points.

DL 2103 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2103thin sample	266	72.1%	55 min	1.50%	C
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–LAX	2,156	82.0%	50 min	0.83%	B+
All carriers on MSP–LAX	2,156	82.0%	50 min	0.83%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2103 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2103 held fairly steady: 76.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 66.3% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 75.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202584 flights76.2%
Oct–Dec 202586 flights66.3%
Jan–Mar 202618 flights—
Apr–Jun 202678 flights75.6%

Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2103 did best on Tuesday at 81.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 57.9%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2103 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,988 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
40%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
22%
Extreme weather
4%

34% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 3,988 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 3,988 delay minutes reported on DL 2103.

Cancellations sit at 1.50% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 55 minutes, 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. 266 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: 10 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.

Where to go next

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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