Flight number record

DL 2268

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Fort Myers

Route: MSP → RSW
Departs: 18:45
Flights: 338
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2268, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2268 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 55 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 338 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2268 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 56 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 332 completed flights

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.48%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 338 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 2268 flies

DL 2268 flies MSP to RSW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:45, used on 65 of 338 flights, with 18:41 (41 flights) and 19:10 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:4565 flights19.2%
Departs 18:4141 flights12.1%
Departs 19:1037 flights10.9%

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 18:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2268 runs 4 points better at 72.0%. 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 2268 next to MSP to RSW

Every carrier on MSP to RSW combined arrived on time 77.8% of the time across 1,215 flights, so DL 2268 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 10 points.

DL 2268 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2268thin sample	338	72.0%	53 min	1.48%	C
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–RSW	1,215	77.8%	68 min	1.15%	B
All carriers on MSP–RSW	1,215	77.8%	68 min	1.15%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2268 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2268 held fairly steady: 71.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 70.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 69.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 75.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202584 flights71.4%
Oct–Dec 202574 flights70.8%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights69.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.8%

Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2268 did best on Monday at 86.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 64.0%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2268 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 4,938 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
50%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
1%

34% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,938 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 34 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 4,938 delay minutes reported on DL 2268.

Cancellations sit at 1.48% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.6% 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 roughly 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,416 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.

Every one of the 338 flights under DL 2268 in the data flew MSP to RSW. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 338 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 2268

For a booking, DL 2268 is one of the weaker ways to fly MSP to RSW: 6 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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