Flight number record
DL 2167
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Portland
- Route
- MSP → PDX
- Departs
- 11:00
- Flights
- 358
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2167, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2167 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 358 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2167's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 103 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.84%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 358 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 2167 flies
DL 2167 flies MSP to PDX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 198 of 358 flights, with 11:03 (57 flights) next.
- Departs 11:00198 flights55.3%
- Departs 11:0357 flights15.9%
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 2167 runs 9 points better at 87.6%. 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 2167 next to MSP to PDX
Every carrier on MSP to PDX combined arrived on time 81.7% of the time across 1,577 flights, so DL 2167 is 6 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,332 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2167thin sample | 358 | 87.6% | 49 min | 0.84% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–PDX | 1,332 | 81.4% | 51 min | 0.53% | B+ |
| All carriers on MSP–PDX | 1,577 | 81.7% | 53 min | 0.63% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2167 quarter by quarter
DL 2167 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 78.7%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 90 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 202525 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights78.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.5%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2167 ranged from 84.3% on Tuesday to 94.1% on Wednesday. With about 51 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2167 runs when it is late
DL 2167 often beats the schedule: 102 of 355 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 44 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early102 flights28.7%
- Within 15 min209 flights58.9%
- 15–29 min late19 flights5.4%
- 30–59 min late15 flights4.2%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 355 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 36 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 11 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 19 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 PDX.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2167
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 December 2025, 4 hours 45 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 29 December 2025 | 4 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 August 2026 | 2 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 May 2026 | 1 hour 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 December 2025 | 1 hour 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 28 July 2026 | 1 hour 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2167 runs late
Carrier accounts for 57% of the 2,143 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Carrier
- 31%National Airspace System
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,213 of the 2,143 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,143 delay minutes reported on DL 2167.
Cancellations are rare at 0.84%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% 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.
The 1,426 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including PDX to MSP (235), but none flew often enough under DL 2167 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to PDX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 358 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 2167
For a booking, DL 2167 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.6% on time and 0.84% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
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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.