Flight number record
DL 2254
Delta Air Lines · Billings to Minneapolis
- Route
- BIL → MSP
- Departs
- 06:24
- Flights
- 255
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2254, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2254 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 255 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2254's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 143 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 251 completed flights
Avg delay
102 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.18%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 255 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 2254 flies
DL 2254 flies BIL to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:24, used on 81 of 255 flights, with 06:25 (52 flights) and 06:30 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 06:2481 flights31.8%
- Departs 06:2552 flights20.4%
- Departs 06:3031 flights12.2%
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 06:24 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2254 runs 2 points better at 91.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2254 next to BIL to MSP
Every carrier on BIL to MSP combined arrived on time 91.7% of the time across 365 flights, so DL 2254 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2254thin sample | 255 | 91.6% | 102 min | 1.18% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on BIL–MSP | 365 | 91.7% | 131 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| All carriers on BIL–MSP | 365 | 91.7% | 131 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2254 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2254 held fairly steady: 88.8% in Jan–Mar 2026, 92.1% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 93.5% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.5%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2254 did best on Monday at 100.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 83.3%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2254 runs when it is late
DL 2254 often beats the schedule: 122 of 251 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 21 late arrivals split 6 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early122 flights48.6%
- Within 15 min108 flights43.0%
- 15–29 min late6 flights2.4%
- 30–59 min late5 flights2.0%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late5 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 251 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 17 of 251 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2254
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 February 2026, 6 hours 2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 14 February 2026 | 6 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 August 2026 | 5 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 February 2026 | 4 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 April 2026 | 4 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 August 2026 | 2 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2254 runs late
Carrier accounts for 89% of the 2,151 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 89%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 89%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,913 of the 2,151 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,151 delay minutes reported on DL 2254.
Cancellations sit at 1.18% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.39%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 748 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 ATL to GSP (69), but none flew often enough under DL 2254 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BIL to MSP only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 255 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 2254
For a booking, DL 2254 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.6% on time and 1.18% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.