Flight number record
DL 2203
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Minneapolis
- Route
- DTW → MSP
- Departs
- 16:25
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2203, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2203 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 45 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights
Avg delay
47 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.27%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 2203 flies
DL 2203 flies DTW to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:25, used on 69 of 365 flights, with 16:36 (62 flights) and 16:35 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 16:2569 flights18.9%
- Departs 16:3662 flights17.0%
- Departs 16:3538 flights10.4%
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 16:25 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2203 runs 4 points better at 75.5%. 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 2203 next to DTW to MSP
Every carrier on DTW to MSP combined arrived on time 79.8% of the time across 1,881 flights, so DL 2203 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 1,879 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.8% 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 2203 | 365 | 75.5% | 47 min | 0.27% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–MSP | 1,879 | 79.8% | 62 min | 0.69% | B+ |
| All carriers on DTW–MSP | 1,881 | 79.8% | 62 min | 0.69% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2203 quarter by quarter
DL 2203 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 82.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 70.8%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 73 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 202592 flights71.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights70.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights75.8%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2203 did best on Monday at 83.0% on time and worst on Friday at 67.3%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2203 runs when it is late
The 89 late arrivals split 41 under half an hour, 29 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early59 flights16.2%
- Within 15 min216 flights59.3%
- 15–29 min late41 flights11.3%
- 30–59 min late29 flights8.0%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 364 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 79 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 29 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 MSP.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2203
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 December 2025, 4 hours 35 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across December, July, February and June, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 December 2025 | 4 hours 35 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 3 July 2026 | 4 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 February 2026 | 3 hours 56 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 5 December 2025 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 June 2026 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2203 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 4,220 reported delay minutes.
- 40%National Airspace System
- 35%Carrier
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,467 of the 4,220 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,220 delay minutes reported on DL 2203.
Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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
5.2% 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 45 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 528 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 2203 in the data flew DTW 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. 365 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
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For a booking, read DL 2203 as 75.5% on time with 0.27% cancelled over 365 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.