Flight number record

DL 2297

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Phoenix

Route: MSP → PHX
Departs: 18:50
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2297 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 70 extra late arrivals.

On time

70.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights

Avg delay

83 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

12.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 2297 flies

DL 2297 flies MSP to PHX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:50, used on 89 of 365 flights, with 18:30 (62 flights) and 18:55 (60 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:5089 flights24.4%
Departs 18:3062 flights17.0%
Departs 18:5560 flights16.4%

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 18:50 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2297 runs 2 points better at 70.6%. 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 2297 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 2297 is 9 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 11 points.

DL 2297 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2297	365	70.6%	83 min	0.27%	C+
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 2297 quarter by quarter

DL 2297 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 62.9%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 91 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 flights75.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights63.0%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights62.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%

Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2297 did best on Tuesday at 77.4% on time and worst on Thursday at 57.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2297 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 59% of the 8,916 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
59%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
National Airspace System
12%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, 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 5,245 of the 8,916 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 8,916 delay minutes reported on DL 2297.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. 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 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 a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.1% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

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.

Key figures