Flight number record
DL 2411
Delta Air Lines · New Orleans to New York
- Route
- MSY → LGA
- Departs
- 10:35
- Flights
- 341
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2411, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2411 earns a B−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 341 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2411's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 67 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 325 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.69%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
6.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 341 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2411 flies
DL 2411 flies MSY to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:35, used on 59 of 341 flights, with 11:14 (55 flights) and 11:30 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 10:3559 flights17.3%
- Departs 11:1455 flights16.1%
- Departs 11:3041 flights12.0%
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 10:35 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2411 runs level with that at 84.3%. 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 2411 next to MSY to LGA
Every carrier on MSY to LGA combined arrived on time 71.6% of the time across 1,421 flights, so DL 2411 is 13 points ahead of it. Delta flew 719 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2411thin sample | 341 | 84.3% | 90 min | 4.69% | B− |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSY–LGA | 719 | 76.9% | 91 min | 4.45% | B− |
| All carriers on MSY–LGA | 1,421 | 71.6% | 86 min | 3.52% | C− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2411 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2411 held fairly steady: 89.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 79.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 81.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights89.1%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights79.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.6%
- Apr–Jun 202667 flights81.0%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2411 did best on Friday at 91.8% on time and worst on Thursday at 77.1%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2411 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 4,612 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.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%National Airspace System
- 20%Carrier
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,612 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 45 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 4,612 delay minutes reported on DL 2411.
Cancellations run at 4.69%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
6.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,183 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.
DL 2411 is not only a MSY to LGA flight. It also flew LGA to MSY (334 flights, 90.5% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 341 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LGA to MSYthin sample | 334 | 90.5% | 92 min | 5.09% | A− |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2411
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2411: 4.69% of its 341 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- MSY to LGA, every carrier and departure
- LGA to MSY, the return direction
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (MSY) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.