Flight number record
DL 2268
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Fort Myers
- Route
- MSP → RSW
- Departs
- 18:45
- Flights
- 312
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 55 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 312 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2268 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 48 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 305 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 312 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 2268 flies
DL 2268 flies MSP to RSW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:45, used on 47 of 312 flights, with 18:48 (37 flights) and 19:10 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 18:4547 flights15.1%
- Departs 18:4837 flights11.9%
- Departs 19:1037 flights11.9%
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 18:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2268 runs 5 points better at 72.5%. 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 2268 next to MSP to RSW
Every carrier on MSP to RSW combined arrived on time 77.7% of the time across 1,205 flights, so DL 2268 is 5 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2268thin sample | 312 | 72.5% | 55 min | 1.92% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–RSW | 1,205 | 77.7% | 68 min | 1.24% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–RSW | 1,205 | 77.7% | 68 min | 1.24% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2268 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2268 held fairly steady: 70.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 69.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 75.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 75.0% in Jul–Sep 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 202525 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202574 flights70.8%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights69.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.8%
- Jul–Sep 202633 flights75.0%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2268 did best on Monday at 84.8% on time and worst on Friday at 64.4%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2268 runs when it is late
DL 2268 often beats the schedule: 86 of 305 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 84 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 34 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early86 flights28.2%
- Within 15 min135 flights44.3%
- 15–29 min late26 flights8.5%
- 30–59 min late34 flights11.1%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights5.2%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 305 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 95 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2268
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 April 2026, 5 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 April 2026 | 5 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 December 2025 | 3 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 September 2025 | 3 hours 7 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 28 July 2026 | 3 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 May 2026 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2268 runs late
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 4,581 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,373 of the 4,581 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,581 delay minutes reported on DL 2268.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.32%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 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.
Every one of the 312 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. 312 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: 5 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.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to RSW, every carrier and departure
- RSW to MSP, the return direction
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Southwest Florida International (RSW) 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.