Flight number record
DL 2122
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Los Angeles
- Route
- MSP → LAX
- Departs
- 18:59
- Flights
- 319
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2122, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2122 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 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 319 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2122 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 63 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 314 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.94%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 319 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2122 flies
DL 2122 flies MSP to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:59, used on 72 of 319 flights, with 18:55 (55 flights) and 18:20 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 18:5972 flights22.6%
- Departs 18:5555 flights17.2%
- Departs 18:2036 flights11.3%
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 18:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2122 runs 3 points better at 71.0%. 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 2122 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 2122 is 11 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2122thin sample | 319 | 71.0% | 58 min | 0.94% | 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 2122 quarter by quarter
DL 2122 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 60.0%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 80 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 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202573 flights69.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.4%
- Apr–Jun 202664 flights67.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights60.0%
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2122 did best on Wednesday at 79.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 58.1%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2122 runs when it is late
The 91 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 38 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 26 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early78 flights24.8%
- Within 15 min145 flights46.2%
- 15–29 min late27 flights8.6%
- 30–59 min late38 flights12.1%
- 1–2 hours late22 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 314 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 96 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 29 still arrived on time. 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 2122
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 July 2026, 13 hours 27 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2026 | 13 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 December 2025 | 3 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 August 2026 | 3 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 August 2026 | 1 hour 45 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2122 runs late
Carrier accounts for 45% of the 5,267 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,368 of the 5,267 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,267 delay minutes reported on DL 2122.
Cancellations sit at 0.94% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.63%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.3% 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.
Every one of the 319 flights under DL 2122 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. 319 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 2122
For a booking, DL 2122 is one of the weaker ways to fly MSP to LAX: 11 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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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.