Flight number record
DL 2297
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Phoenix
- Route
- MSP → PHX
- Departs
- 18:48
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2297, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2297 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2297 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 41 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.27%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2297 flies
DL 2297 flies MSP to PHX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:48, used on 85 of 365 flights, with 18:30 (62 flights) and 18:55 (54 flights) next.
- Departs 18:4885 flights23.3%
- Departs 18:3062 flights17.0%
- Departs 18:5554 flights14.8%
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 18:48 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2297 runs 5 points better at 73.2%. 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 2297 next to MSP to PHX
Every carrier on MSP to PHX combined arrived on time 80.3% of the time across 2,974 flights, so DL 2297 is 7 points behind it. Delta flew 2,044 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2297 | 365 | 73.2% | 79 min | 0.27% | C+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–PHX | 2,044 | 79.5% | 63 min | 0.73% | B+ |
| All carriers on MSP–PHX | 2,974 | 80.3% | 70 min | 0.91% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2297 quarter by quarter
DL 2297 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 86.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 62.9%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 73 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 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights63.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights62.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.0%
Scale runs 55% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2297 did best on Saturday at 78.8% on time and worst on Thursday at 63.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2297 runs when it is late
The 97 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 33 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 38 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early67 flights18.5%
- Within 15 min198 flights54.7%
- 15–29 min late26 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late33 flights9.1%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights5.8%
- 2+ hours late17 flights4.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 362 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
29 of 110 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2297
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 December 2025, 16 hours 49 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 28 December 2025 | 16 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 April 2026 | 8 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 February 2026 | 4 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 August 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 January 2026 | 3 hours 12 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2297 runs late
Carrier accounts for 51% of the 7,665 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Carrier
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,916 of the 7,665 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,665 delay minutes reported on DL 2297.
Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, below the national 1.89% 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
10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 2297 in the data flew MSP to PHX. 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. 365 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 2297
For a booking, DL 2297 is one of the weaker ways to fly MSP to PHX: 7 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.
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Where to go next
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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.