Flight number record
DL 2198
Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Minneapolis
- Route
- LAX → MSP
- Departs
- 15:20
- Flights
- 333
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2198, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2198 lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 333 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2198's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 64 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 331 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.60%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 333 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2198 flies
DL 2198 flies LAX to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:20, used on 62 of 333 flights, with 15:25 (46 flights) next.
- Departs 15:2062 flights18.6%
- Departs 15:2546 flights13.8%
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 15:20 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2198 runs 12 points better at 83.7%. 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 2198 next to LAX to MSP
Every carrier on LAX to MSP combined arrived on time 86.2% of the time across 2,109 flights, so DL 2198 is 3 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2198thin sample | 333 | 83.7% | 55 min | 0.60% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on LAX–MSP | 2,109 | 86.2% | 57 min | 0.95% | A+ |
| All carriers on LAX–MSP | 2,109 | 86.2% | 57 min | 0.95% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 66.7%, a swing of 25 points on roughly 67 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 flights66.7%
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights86.1%
- Jan–Mar 202676 flights92.0%
- Apr–Jun 202686 flights83.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights78.7%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 2198 ranged from 79.2% on Sunday to 88.9% on Tuesday. With about 48 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 2198 runs when it is late
DL 2198 often beats the schedule: 110 of 331 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 54 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early110 flights33.2%
- Within 15 min167 flights50.5%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.3%
- 30–59 min late21 flights6.3%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.1%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 331 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 54 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2198
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 September 2025, 6 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2025 | 6 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 September 2025 | 4 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 November 2025 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 November 2025 | 2 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 July 2026 | 2 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2198 runs late
Carrier accounts for 56% of the 2,992 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Carrier
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,666 of the 2,992 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,992 delay minutes reported on DL 2198.
Cancellations are rare at 0.60%, 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 3.6% 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.
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 333 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. 333 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, read DL 2198 as 83.7% on time with 0.60% cancelled over 333 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.