Flight number record
DL 2119
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Los Angeles
- Route
- MSP → LAX
- Departs
- 11:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2119, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2119 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2119's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 88 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.10%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2119 flies
DL 2119 flies MSP to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 52 of 365 flights, with 11:47 (48 flights) and 11:36 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 11:0052 flights14.2%
- Departs 11:4748 flights13.2%
- Departs 11:3638 flights10.4%
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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2119 runs 8 points better at 86.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2119 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 2119 is 5 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2119 | 365 | 86.1% | 70 min | 1.10% | A |
| 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 2119 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2119 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.6% in Jan–Mar 2026, 86.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 86.9% 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 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights86.9%
Scale runs 75% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 2119 did best on Tuesday at 92.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 74.0%. 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 2119 runs when it is late
DL 2119 often beats the schedule: 136 of 361 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 50 late arrivals split 23 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early136 flights37.7%
- Within 15 min175 flights48.5%
- 15–29 min late23 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.8%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights2.8%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 43 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2119
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 August 2026, 6 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2026 | 6 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 July 2026 | 4 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 January 2026 | 3 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 May 2026 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 June 2026 | 3 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2119 runs late
Carrier accounts for 65% of the 3,500 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 65%Carrier
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,290 of the 3,500 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,500 delay minutes reported on DL 2119.
Cancellations sit at 1.10% 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 4.7% 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 2119 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
Booking DL 2119
For a booking, DL 2119 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.1% on time and 1.10% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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.