Flight number record
DL 2238
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Las Vegas
- Route
- MSP → LAS
- Departs
- 11:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2238, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2238 lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 2238 flies
DL 2238 flies MSP to LAS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 77 of 364 flights, with 11:16 (54 flights) and 11:05 (52 flights) next.
- Departs 11:0077 flights21.2%
- Departs 11:1654 flights14.8%
- Departs 11:0552 flights14.3%
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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2238 runs level with that at 79.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2238 next to MSP to LAS
Every carrier on MSP to LAS combined arrived on time 80.1% of the time across 2,086 flights, so DL 2238 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,951 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2238thin sample | 364 | 79.2% | 55 min | 0.55% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–LAS | 1,951 | 79.9% | 63 min | 1.08% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–LAS | 2,086 | 80.1% | 62 min | 1.05% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2238 quarter by quarter
DL 2238 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 71.0%, a swing of 26 points on roughly 73 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 202591 flights78.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights71.0%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2238 did best on Tuesday at 86.5% on time and worst on Monday at 66.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2238 runs when it is late
DL 2238 often beats the schedule: 100 of 361 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 75 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 32 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early100 flights27.7%
- Within 15 min186 flights51.5%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late32 flights8.9%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights4.2%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 66 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. In the other direction, 23 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LAS.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2238
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 January 2026, 5 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 January 2026 | 5 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 June 2026 | 3 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 February 2026 | 3 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 July 2026 | 3 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 February 2026 | 2 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2238 runs late
Carrier accounts for 65% of the 4,146 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 65%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 15%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,707 of the 4,146 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,146 delay minutes reported on DL 2238.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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
5.8% 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 an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,299 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including LAS to MSP (228), but none flew often enough under DL 2238 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to LAS only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 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
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For a booking, read DL 2238 as 79.2% on time with 0.55% cancelled over 364 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.