Flight number record

DL 2238

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Las Vegas

Route: MSP → LAS
Departs: 11:00
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2238, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2238 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six 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 364 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2238's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.55%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 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. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:0077 flights21.2%
Departs 11:1654 flights14.8%
Departs 11:0552 flights14.3%

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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2238 runs 3 points better at 82.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2238 next to MSP to LAS

Every carrier on MSP to LAS combined arrived on time 81.7% of the time across 2,188 flights, so DL 2238 is about level with it. Delta flew 2,007 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 2238 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2238thin sample	364	82.0%	59 min	0.55%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–LAS	2,007	81.1%	62 min	1.05%	B
All carriers on MSP–LAS	2,188	81.7%	62 min	1.01%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 90.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.1%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 91 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 202591 flights78.0%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.3%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2238 did best on Saturday at 90.4% on time and worst on Monday at 69.2%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2238 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 70% of the 3,809 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
70%
National Airspace System
18%
Late-arriving aircraft
11%

The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, 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 2,683 of the 3,809 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,809 delay minutes reported on DL 2238.

Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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

5.5% 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 1,299 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. 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 one other city pair in the data, including LAS to MSP (207), 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

Booking DL 2238

For a booking, read DL 2238 as 82.0% on time with 0.55% cancelled over 364 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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