Flight number record

DL 2287

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Phoenix

Route: MSP → PHX
Departs: 14:54
Flights: 296
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2287, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2287 sits in the middle of the pack with a B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 296 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.

On time

75.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 294 completed flights

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.34%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 296 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.

Schedule

When DL 2287 flies

DL 2287 flies MSP to PHX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:54, used on 59 of 296 flights, with 15:48 (57 flights) and 15:20 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:5459 flights19.9%
Departs 15:4857 flights19.3%
Departs 15:2040 flights13.5%

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 14:54 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2287 runs 3 points better at 75.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2287 next to MSP to PHX

Every carrier on MSP to PHX combined arrived on time 79.9% of the time across 3,081 flights, so DL 2287 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 2,074 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

DL 2287 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2287thin sample	296	75.5%	49 min	0.34%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–PHX	2,074	78.8%	64 min	0.68%	B+
All carriers on MSP–PHX	3,081	79.9%	72 min	0.84%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2287 quarter by quarter

DL 2287 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.8% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 69.8%, a swing of 12 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 202591 flights75.6%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights69.8%
Jan–Mar 202663 flights77.8%
Apr–Jun 202655 flights81.8%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2287 did best on Tuesday at 84.1% on time and worst on Friday at 62.5%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2287 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,499 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
41%
Late-arriving aircraft
30%
National Airspace System
27%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,435 of the 3,499 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,499 delay minutes reported on DL 2287.

Cancellations are rare at 0.34%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.1% 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 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,276 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.

DL 2287 is not only a MSP to PHX flight. It also flew PHX to MSP (268 flights, 81.5% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 296 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2287
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PHX to MSPthin sample	268	81.5%	85 min	0.37%	B+

What to do with this

Booking DL 2287

For a booking, read DL 2287 as 75.5% on time with 0.34% cancelled over 296 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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