Flight number record
DL 2134
Delta Air Lines · San Diego to Minneapolis
- Route
- SAN → MSP
- Departs
- 06:15
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2134, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2134 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2134's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 166 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.37%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
1.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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.
Schedule
When DL 2134 flies
DL 2134 flies SAN to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:15, used on 139 of 365 flights, with 06:25 (93 flights) and 06:20 (79 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:15139 flights38.1%
- Departs 06:2593 flights25.5%
- Departs 06:2079 flights21.6%
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 06:15 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2134 runs 5 points better at 94.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
DL 2134 next to SAN to MSP
Every carrier on SAN to MSP combined arrived on time 88.5% of the time across 1,314 flights, so DL 2134 is 6 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2134 | 365 | 94.2% | 72 min | 1.37% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on SAN–MSP | 1,314 | 88.5% | 81 min | 0.76% | A+ |
| All carriers on SAN–MSP | 1,314 | 88.5% | 81 min | 0.76% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2134 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2134 held fairly steady: 97.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 96.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights97.8%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights92.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights89.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.7%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2134 ranged from 88.2% on Saturday to 98.1% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why DL 2134 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 1,521 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
49% 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 1,521 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 49 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 1,521 delay minutes reported on DL 2134.
Cancellations sit at 1.37% against a national 1.81%, 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 1.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 1,532 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 2134 in the data flew SAN to MSP. 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 2134
For a booking, DL 2134 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 94.2% on time and 1.37% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- SAN to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to SAN, 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.