Flight number record

DL 2185

Delta Air Lines · Santa Ana to Minneapolis

Route: SNA → MSP
Departs: 08:00
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2185, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2185 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2185's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 65 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights

Avg delay

87 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.48%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 2185 flies

DL 2185 is scheduled to leave Santa Ana (SNA) at 08:00 local time and reach Minneapolis (MSP) at 13:44. That slot held for 311 of the 363 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.

Departs 08:00311 flights85.7%
Departs 09:0045 flights12.4%

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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2185 runs level with that at 84.1%. 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 2185 next to SNA to MSP

Every carrier on SNA to MSP combined arrived on time 82.1% of the time across 580 flights, so DL 2185 is 2 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 2185 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2185thin sample	363	84.1%	87 min	2.48%	B
All Delta Air Lines on SNA–MSP	580	82.1%	74 min	1.72%	B
All carriers on SNA–MSP	580	82.1%	74 min	1.72%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2185 quarter by quarter

DL 2185 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 91.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.6%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights83.7%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights83.7%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights77.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.1%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2185 did best on Wednesday at 92.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 64.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 28 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2185 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 62% of the 4,854 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.

Carrier
62%
Late-arriving aircraft
22%
National Airspace System
16%

The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,986 of the 4,854 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,854 delay minutes reported on DL 2185.

Cancellations sit at 2.48% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.5% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 1,522 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 363 flights under DL 2185 in the data flew SNA 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. 363 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 2185

For a booking, read DL 2185 as 84.1% on time with 2.48% cancelled over 363 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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