Flight number record
DL 2246
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Las Vegas
- Route
- MSP → LAS
- Departs
- 18:50
- Flights
- 323
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2246, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2246 draws a D. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 323 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2246 runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 128 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 318 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
12.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 323 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 323 flights, with 18:59 (50 flights) and 18:17 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 18:5060 flights18.6%
- Departs 18:5950 flights15.5%
- Departs 18:1740 flights12.4%
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 18:50 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2246 runs 4 points worse at 64.5%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2246 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 2246 is 16 points behind 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 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2246thin sample | 323 | 64.5% | 80 min | 1.55% | D |
| 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 2246 quarter by quarter
DL 2246 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 76.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 52.5%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 81 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 202512 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202568 flights64.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights60.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights52.5%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2246 did best on Wednesday at 81.0% on time and worst on Monday at 51.0%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2246 runs when it is late
The 113 late arrivals split 35 under half an hour, 38 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 40 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early63 flights19.8%
- Within 15 min142 flights44.7%
- 15–29 min late35 flights11.0%
- 30–59 min late38 flights11.9%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights6.3%
- 2+ hours late20 flights6.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 318 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 109 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 19 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 2246
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 February 2026, 15 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 February 2026 | 15 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 February 2026 | 15 hours 11 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 2 August 2026 | 5 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 June 2026 | 3 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2246 runs late
Carrier accounts for 53% of the 9,009 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Carrier
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%National Airspace System
- 12%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 9,009 delay minutes reported on DL 2246.
Cancellations sit at 1.55% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
12.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.
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. 323 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 a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.6% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to LAS, every carrier and departure
- LAS to MSP, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2261 on the same route89.1%
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- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Harry Reid International (LAS) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
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- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.