Flight number record

DL 2409

Delta Air Lines · New York to Minneapolis

Route: LGA → MSP
Departs: 11:05
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2409, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2409 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 55 minutes. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2409's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights

Avg delay

54 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.47%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 2409 flies

DL 2409 flies LGA to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:05, used on 123 of 365 flights, with 11:10 (73 flights) and 11:00 (62 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:05123 flights33.7%
Departs 11:1073 flights20.0%
Departs 11:0062 flights17.0%

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 11:05 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2409 runs 7 points better at 85.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2409 next to LGA to MSP

Every carrier on LGA to MSP combined arrived on time 83.5% of the time across 1,889 flights, so DL 2409 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,806 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

DL 2409 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2409	365	85.4%	54 min	2.47%	A
All Delta Air Lines on LGA–MSP	1,806	83.2%	83 min	2.38%	B
All carriers on LGA–MSP	1,889	83.5%	83 min	2.49%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 92.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 75.8%, a swing of 17 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 flights92.3%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights75.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2409 ranged from 77.6% on Sunday to 88.5% on Friday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2409 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 44% of the 2,825 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
31%
Late-arriving aircraft
22%
Extreme weather
3%

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 1,236 of the 2,825 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,825 delay minutes reported on DL 2409.

Cancellations sit at 2.47% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.9% 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 1,020 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. 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 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, read DL 2409 as 85.4% on time with 2.47% cancelled over 365 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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