Flight number record
DL 2229
Delta Air Lines · Sacramento to Minneapolis
- Route
- SMF → MSP
- Departs
- 06:15
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2229, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2229 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2229's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 149 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights
Avg delay
93 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.83%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 2229 flies
DL 2229 flies SMF to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:15, used on 265 of 363 flights, with 06:00 (95 flights) next.
- Departs 06:15265 flights73.0%
- Departs 06:0095 flights26.2%
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 06:15 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2229 runs 3 points better at 92.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2229 next to SMF to MSP
Every carrier on SMF to MSP combined arrived on time 92.4% of the time across 593 flights, so DL 2229 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2229thin sample | 363 | 92.2% | 93 min | 0.83% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on SMF–MSP | 593 | 92.4% | 81 min | 0.67% | A+ |
| All carriers on SMF–MSP | 593 | 92.4% | 81 min | 0.67% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2229 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2229 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 95.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 93.5% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights93.3%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights86.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.5%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2229 did best on Wednesday at 100.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 82.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2229 runs when it is late
DL 2229 often beats the schedule: 174 of 360 completed flights, 48%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 28 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early174 flights48.3%
- Within 15 min158 flights43.9%
- 15–29 min late10 flights2.8%
- 30–59 min late7 flights1.9%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.1%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 360 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 31 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. Only 6 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2229
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 March 2026, 5 hours 56 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 27 March 2026 | 5 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 January 2026 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 4 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 February 2026 | 3 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 March 2026 | 3 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2229 runs late
Carrier accounts for 84% of the 2,614 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 84%Carrier
- 10%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 84%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,191 of the 2,614 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,614 delay minutes reported on DL 2229.
Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, 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 3.1% 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 1,517 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 363 flights under DL 2229 in the data flew SMF 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. 363 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 2229
For a booking, DL 2229 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.2% on time and 0.83% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- Sacramento International (SMF) delay statistics
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.