Flight number record

DL 2288

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Phoenix

Route: MSP → PHX
Departs: 06:55
Flights: 281
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2288, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2288 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 281 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2288's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 113 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 280 completed flights

Avg delay

52 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 281 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 2288 flies

DL 2288 flies MSP to PHX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:55, used on 54 of 281 flights, with 09:22 (35 flights) and 09:16 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:5554 flights19.2%
Departs 09:2235 flights12.5%
Departs 09:1633 flights11.7%

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 06:55 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2288 runs level with that at 88.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 2288 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 2288 is 9 points ahead of 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 beats by 7 points.

DL 2288 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2288thin sample	281	88.9%	52 min	0.00%	A+
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 2288 quarter by quarter

DL 2288 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.5%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 70 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 202592 flights93.5%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.5%
Jan–Mar 202642 flights88.1%
Apr–Jun 202655 flights94.4%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2288 did best on Thursday at 100.0% on time and worst on Monday at 82.1%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2288 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 44% of the 1,620 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
44%
National Airspace System
41%
Extreme weather
8%
Late-arriving aircraft
6%

The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, 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 720 of the 1,620 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,620 delay minutes reported on DL 2288.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 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.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including PHX to MSP (154), LAS to MSP (24) and LAS to LAX (18), but none flew often enough under DL 2288 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to PHX only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 281 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 2288

For a booking, DL 2288 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.9% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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