Flight number record
DL 2409
Delta Air Lines · New York to Minneapolis
- Route
- LGA → MSP
- Departs
- 11:10
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2409, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2409 lands a B−, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2409's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 60 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.01%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 2409 flies
DL 2409 flies LGA to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:10, used on 126 of 365 flights, with 11:00 (62 flights) and 11:05 (61 flights) next.
- Departs 11:10126 flights34.5%
- Departs 11:0062 flights17.0%
- Departs 11:0561 flights16.7%
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 11:10 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2409 runs 5 points better at 83.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2409 next to LGA to MSP
Every carrier on LGA to MSP combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 1,815 flights, so DL 2409 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,811 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2409 | 365 | 83.3% | 77 min | 3.01% | B− |
| All Delta Air Lines on LGA–MSP | 1,811 | 81.6% | 89 min | 2.93% | B |
| All carriers on LGA–MSP | 1,815 | 81.6% | 89 min | 2.92% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2409 quarter by quarter
DL 2409 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 75.8%, a swing of 18 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights75.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights79.7%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2409 did best on Friday at 88.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2409 runs when it is late
DL 2409 often beats the schedule: 147 of 354 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 59 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early147 flights41.5%
- Within 15 min148 flights41.8%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.2%
- 30–59 min late19 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.1%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 43 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 26 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MSP.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2409
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 July 2026, 10 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2026 | 10 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 July 2026 | 8 hours 17 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 December 2025 | 5 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 July 2026 | 4 hours 26 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 August 2026 | 3 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2409 runs late
Carrier accounts for 49% of the 4,539 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Carrier
- 39%National Airspace System
- 12%Late-arriving aircraft
39% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,773 minutes out of 4,539, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,539 delay minutes reported on DL 2409.
Cancellations run at 3.01%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,020 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 2409 in the data flew LGA to MSP. 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 2409
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2409: 3.01% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to LGA, the return direction
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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.