Flight number record

DL 2237

Delta Air Lines · Fargo to Minneapolis

Route: FAR → MSP
Departs: 05:00
Flights: 298
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2237, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2237 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.6 hours. That rests on 298 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2237's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 116 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 297 completed flights

Avg delay

158 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.34%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

5.7%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 298 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 2237 flies

DL 2237 is scheduled to leave Fargo (FAR) at 05:00 local time and reach Minneapolis (MSP) at 06:14. That slot held for 262 of the 298 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.

Departs 05:00262 flights87.9%
Departs 05:0536 flights12.1%

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 05:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2237 runs level with that at 88.9%. 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 2237 next to FAR to MSP

Every carrier on FAR to MSP combined arrived on time 87.2% of the time across 1,218 flights, so DL 2237 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 699 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

DL 2237 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2237thin sample	298	88.9%	158 min	0.34%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on FAR–MSP	699	87.4%	111 min	0.43%	A+
All carriers on FAR–MSP	1,218	87.2%	92 min	0.57%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2237 quarter by quarter

DL 2237 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 96.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 79.5%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 75 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 flights96.7%
Oct–Dec 202526 flights—
Jan–Mar 202689 flights79.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.2%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights96.8%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2237 ranged from 86.7% on Monday to 90.7% on Saturday. With about 43 flights behind each day, a spread of 4 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2237 runs when it is late

DL 2237 often beats the schedule: 159 of 297 completed flights, 54%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When DL 2237 is late it tends to be very late: 17 of its 33 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 11 were two hours or more.

15+ min early159 flights53.5%
Within 15 min105 flights35.4%
15–29 min late10 flights3.4%
30–59 min late6 flights2.0%
1–2 hours late6 flights2.0%
2+ hours late11 flights3.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 297 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

4 of 24 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2237

The latest arrival of the period was on 28 August 2026, 15 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of DL 2237 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
28 August 2026	15 hours 18 minutes	Carrier
23 January 2026	8 hours 42 minutes	Carrier
15 June 2026	7 hours 20 minutes	Carrier
4 April 2026	7 hours 4 minutes	Extreme weather
6 January 2026	6 hours 54 minutes	Extreme weather

Delay causes

Why DL 2237 runs late

Carrier accounts for 64% of the 5,196 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
64%
Extreme weather
16%
National Airspace System
10%
Late-arriving aircraft
10%

Extreme weather accounts for 16% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,196 delay minutes reported on DL 2237.

Cancellations are rare at 0.34%, 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

5.7% 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 about 2.6 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

Every one of the 298 flights under DL 2237 in the data flew FAR 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. 298 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 2237

For a booking, DL 2237 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.9% on time and 0.34% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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