Flight number record

DL 2187

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Miami

Route: MSP → MIA
Departs: 13:08
Flights: 357
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2187, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2187 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 45 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 357 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

On time

73.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights

Avg delay

46 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.56%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 357 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 2187 flies

DL 2187 flies MSP to MIA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:08, used on 36 of 357 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:0836 flights10.1%

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 13:08 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2187 runs 5 points worse at 73.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2187 next to MSP to MIA

Every carrier on MSP to MIA combined arrived on time 82.4% of the time across 1,125 flights, so DL 2187 is 9 points behind it. Delta flew 760 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 8 points.

DL 2187 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2187thin sample	357	73.7%	46 min	0.56%	C+
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–MIA	760	78.2%	47 min	0.79%	B+
All carriers on MSP–MIA	1,125	82.4%	63 min	0.89%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2187 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2187 held fairly steady: 74.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 67.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 77.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 75.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights74.7%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights67.4%
Jan–Mar 202688 flights77.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.6%

Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2187 did best on Wednesday at 82.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 60.0%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2187 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 42% of the 4,309 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
42%
National Airspace System
40%
Late-arriving aircraft
16%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, 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 1,818 of the 4,309 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,309 delay minutes reported on DL 2187.

Cancellations are rare at 0.56%, below the national 1.81% 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

5.6% 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 roughly 45 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 1,501 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.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including MIA to MSP (220) and ATL to CHA (1), but none flew often enough under DL 2187 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to MIA only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 357 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 2187

For a booking, DL 2187 is one of the weaker ways to fly MSP to MIA: 9 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.

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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