Flight number record

DL 2203

Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Minneapolis

Route: DTW → MSP
Departs: 16:36
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 45 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.

On time

74.5%

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 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 2 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 2203 flies

DL 2203 flies DTW to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:36, used on 97 of 365 flights, with 16:25 (63 flights) and 16:42 (56 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:3697 flights26.6%
Departs 16:2563 flights17.3%
Departs 16:4256 flights15.3%

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 16:36 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2203 runs 2 points better at 74.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2203 next to DTW to MSP

Every carrier on DTW to MSP combined arrived on time 78.7% of the time across 1,927 flights, so DL 2203 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 1,882 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 7 points.

DL 2203 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2203	365	74.5%	47 min	0.27%	C+
All Delta Air Lines on DTW–MSP	1,882	78.5%	68 min	0.64%	B+
All carriers on DTW–MSP	1,927	78.7%	69 min	0.62%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 91 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 202592 flights72.8%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights71.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights70.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.4%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2203 did best on Monday at 80.8% on time and worst on Friday at 67.3%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

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 4,401 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
38%
Carrier
32%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
Extreme weather
1%

38% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,693 minutes out of 4,401, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,401 delay minutes reported on DL 2203.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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

5.2% 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.

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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

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

Booking DL 2203

For a booking, read DL 2203 as 74.5% on time with 0.27% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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