Flight number record
DL 2187
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Miami
- Route
- MSP → MIA
- Departs
- 13:08
- Flights
- 357
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 357 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
48 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.56%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 357 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 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.
- Departs 13:0836 flights10.1%
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 13:08 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2187 runs 3 points worse at 75.1%. 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 2187 next to MSP to MIA
Every carrier on MSP to MIA combined arrived on time 83.2% of the time across 1,140 flights, so DL 2187 is 8 points behind it. Delta flew 760 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2187thin sample | 357 | 75.1% | 48 min | 0.56% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–MIA | 760 | 79.5% | 50 min | 0.79% | B+ |
| All carriers on MSP–MIA | 1,140 | 83.2% | 63 min | 0.88% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2187 quarter by quarter
DL 2187 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 80.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.4%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 71 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 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights67.4%
- Jan–Mar 202688 flights77.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.6%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights80.3%
Scale runs 60% to 85%.
By weekday, DL 2187 did best on Tuesday at 82.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 62.0%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2187 runs when it is late
DL 2187 often beats the schedule: 94 of 354 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 88 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early94 flights26.6%
- Within 15 min172 flights48.6%
- 15–29 min late31 flights8.8%
- 30–59 min late36 flights10.2%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights4.2%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 68 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 33 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 MIA.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2187
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 2 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. Three of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 48 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 August 2026 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 March 2026 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 7 March 2026 | 2 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 January 2026 | 2 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2187 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 4,208 reported delay minutes.
- 40%National Airspace System
- 39%Carrier
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,644 of the 4,208 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,208 delay minutes reported on DL 2187.
Cancellations are rare at 0.56%, 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
5.9% 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 roughly 50 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: 8 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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Where to go next
- MSP to MIA, every carrier and departure
- MIA to MSP, the return direction
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- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Miami International (MIA) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
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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.