Flight number record

DL 2237

Delta Air Lines · Fargo to Minneapolis

Route: FAR → MSP
Departs: 05:00
Flights: 298
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.1 hours. That rests on 298 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2237's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 110 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 297 completed flights

Avg delay

129 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.34%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 298 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 2237 flies

DL 2237 is scheduled to leave Fargo (FAR) at 05:00 local time and reach Minneapolis (MSP) at 06:07. 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%. 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 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 88.6%. 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 2237 next to FAR to MSP

Every carrier on FAR to MSP combined arrived on time 86.0% of the time across 1,305 flights, so DL 2237 is 3 points ahead of it. Delta flew 700 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

DL 2237 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2237thin sample	298	88.6%	129 min	0.34%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on FAR–MSP	700	87.2%	100 min	0.43%	A+
All carriers on FAR–MSP	1,305	86.0%	81 min	0.61%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2237 quarter by quarter

DL 2237 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 95.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 79.5%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 99 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 flights95.7%
Oct–Dec 202526 flights—
Jan–Mar 202689 flights79.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.2%

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

By weekday, DL 2237 ranged from 86.0% on Sunday to 90.5% on Friday. With about 43 flights behind each day, a spread of 5 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2237 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 4,376 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
55%
Extreme weather
21%
National Airspace System
12%
Late-arriving aircraft
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 21% 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 3.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,376 delay minutes reported on DL 2237.

Cancellations are rare at 0.34%, 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

5.7% 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 2.1 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: 88.6% 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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