Flight number record

DL 2246

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Las Vegas

Route: MSP → LAS
Departs: 18:50
Flights: 294
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2246, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2246 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 294 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2246 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 86 extra late arrivals.

On time

69.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 290 completed flights

Avg delay

82 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.36%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 294 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 2246 flies

DL 2246 flies MSP to LAS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:50, used on 60 of 294 flights, with 18:17 (40 flights) and 19:09 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:5060 flights20.4%
Departs 18:1740 flights13.6%
Departs 19:0938 flights12.9%

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 18:50 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2246 runs level with that at 69.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2246 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 2246 is 13 points behind 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%, which this flight trails by 13 points.

DL 2246 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2246thin sample	294	69.0%	82 min	1.36%	C
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 2246 quarter by quarter

DL 2246 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 77.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 60.2%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 74 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 202545 flights77.8%
Oct–Dec 202568 flights64.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights60.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.4%

Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2246 did best on Wednesday at 82.4% on time and worst on Monday at 54.2%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 28 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2246 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 7,398 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%
National Airspace System
19%
Extreme weather
14%
Late-arriving aircraft
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,398 delay minutes reported on DL 2246.

Cancellations sit at 1.36% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

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 LAX to ATL (8), but none flew often enough under DL 2246 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. 294 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 2246

For a booking, DL 2246 is one of the weaker ways to fly MSP to LAS: 13 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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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