Flight number record

DL 2198

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Minneapolis

Route: LAX → MSP
Departs: 15:20
Flights: 332
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2198, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2198 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 332 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2198's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 76 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 331 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.30%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 332 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When DL 2198 flies

DL 2198 flies LAX to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:20, used on 67 of 332 flights, with 15:15 (60 flights) and 15:25 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:2067 flights20.2%
Departs 15:1560 flights18.1%
Departs 15:2540 flights12.0%

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 15:20 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2198 runs 13 points better at 85.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2198 next to LAX to MSP

Every carrier on LAX to MSP combined arrived on time 86.2% of the time across 2,156 flights, so DL 2198 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

DL 2198 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2198thin sample	332	85.2%	58 min	0.30%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on LAX–MSP	2,156	86.2%	57 min	0.79%	A+
All carriers on LAX–MSP	2,156	86.2%	57 min	0.79%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2198 quarter by quarter

DL 2198 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 92.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.2%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 83 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 202591 flights80.2%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights86.1%
Jan–Mar 202676 flights92.0%
Apr–Jun 202686 flights83.7%

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

By weekday, DL 2198 ranged from 81.2% on Sunday to 88.9% on Wednesday. With about 47 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2198 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 52% of the 2,858 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
52%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
National Airspace System
16%

The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, 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 1,490 of the 2,858 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,858 delay minutes reported on DL 2198.

Cancellations are rare at 0.30%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.0% 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 1,535 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 332 flights under DL 2198 in the data flew LAX 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. 332 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 2198

For a booking, DL 2198 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.2% on time and 0.30% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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