Flight number record

DL 2418

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Spokane

Route: MSP → GEG
Departs: 21:59
Flights: 364
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2418, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2418 sits in the middle of the pack with a B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

On time

75.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights

Avg delay

55 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.55%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

5.5%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 2418 flies

DL 2418 flies MSP to GEG without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:59, used on 59 of 364 flights, with 18:45 (38 flights) next.

Departs 21:5959 flights16.2%
Departs 18:4538 flights10.4%

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 21:59 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2418 runs 5 points better at 75.4%. 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 2418 next to MSP to GEG

Every carrier on MSP to GEG combined arrived on time 82.1% of the time across 774 flights, so DL 2418 is 7 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

DL 2418 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2418thin sample	364	75.4%	55 min	0.55%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–GEG	774	82.1%	53 min	0.78%	B+
All carriers on MSP–GEG	774	82.1%	53 min	0.78%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2418 quarter by quarter

DL 2418 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 68.9%, a swing of 21 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 flights90.0%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights71.1%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights68.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights77.8%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.6%

Scale runs 60% to 95%.

By weekday, DL 2418 ranged from 72.5% on Thursday to 78.4% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2418 runs when it is late

The 89 late arrivals split 37 under half an hour, 32 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.

15+ min early72 flights19.9%
Within 15 min201 flights55.5%
15–29 min late37 flights10.2%
30–59 min late32 flights8.8%
1–2 hours late14 flights3.9%
2+ hours late6 flights1.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 362 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

13 of 78 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 24 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 GEG.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2418

The latest arrival of the period was on 1 August 2026, 11 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across August, October, December and February, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of DL 2418 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
1 August 2026	11 hours 7 minutes	Extreme weather
18 October 2025	4 hours 11 minutes	Carrier
7 August 2026	2 hours 49 minutes	Carrier
28 December 2025	2 hours 42 minutes	Extreme weather
18 February 2026	2 hours 4 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why DL 2418 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 4,917 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
39%
National Airspace System
24%
Late-arriving aircraft
19%
Extreme weather
18%

Extreme weather accounts for 18% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,917 delay minutes reported on DL 2418.

Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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

5.5% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,175 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 364 flights under DL 2418 in the data flew MSP to GEG. 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. 364 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 2418

For a booking, DL 2418 is one of the weaker ways to fly MSP to GEG: 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.

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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures