Flight number record

DL 2226

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Fort Myers

Route: MSP → RSW
Departs: 10:25
Flights: 286
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2226, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2226 lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 286 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

On time

80.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 285 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.35%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 286 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 2226 flies

DL 2226 flies MSP to RSW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:25, used on 38 of 286 flights, with 08:55 (36 flights) and 09:36 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 10:2538 flights13.3%
Departs 08:5536 flights12.6%
Departs 09:3635 flights12.2%

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 10:25 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2226 runs 3 points worse at 80.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 2226 next to MSP to RSW

Every carrier on MSP to RSW combined arrived on time 77.8% of the time across 1,215 flights, so DL 2226 is 3 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 2226 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2226thin sample	286	80.7%	62 min	0.35%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–RSW	1,215	77.8%	68 min	1.15%	B
All carriers on MSP–RSW	1,215	77.8%	68 min	1.15%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2226 quarter by quarter

DL 2226 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.3%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 95 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 flights90.2%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights77.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.3%
Apr–Jun 202612 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2226 did best on Monday at 90.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 70.0%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2226 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 56% of the 3,429 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
56%
National Airspace System
40%
Late-arriving aircraft
4%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, 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 1,907 of the 3,429 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,429 delay minutes reported on DL 2226.

Cancellations are rare at 0.35%, 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

5.6% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,416 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.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including RSW to MSP (226), LGA to ORD (76) and ORD to LGA (55), but none flew often enough under DL 2226 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to RSW only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 286 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 2226

For a booking, read DL 2226 as 80.7% on time with 0.35% cancelled over 286 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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