Flight number record

DL 2462

Delta Air Lines · Valparaiso to Minneapolis

Route: VPS → MSP
Departs: 13:00
Flights: 290
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2462, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2462 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 290 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

78.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 284 completed flights

Avg delay

46 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.72%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 290 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 2462 flies

DL 2462 flies VPS to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:00, used on 94 of 290 flights, with 11:03 (36 flights) and 14:01 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:0094 flights32.4%
Departs 11:0336 flights12.4%
Departs 14:0131 flights10.7%

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 13:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2462 runs level with that at 78.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2462 next to VPS to MSP

Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

DL 2462 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2462thin sample	290	78.2%	46 min	1.72%	B
All Delta Air Lines on VPS–MSPthin sample	290	78.2%	46 min	1.72%	B
All carriers on VPS–MSPthin sample	290	78.2%	46 min	1.72%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2462 quarter by quarter

DL 2462 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 97.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 67.8%, a swing of 29 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 202565 flights82.5%
Oct–Dec 202568 flights97.0%
Jan–Mar 202666 flights68.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights67.8%

Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2462 did best on Monday at 90.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 64.4%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2462 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
54%
Carrier
27%
National Airspace System
18%
Extreme weather
1%

54% 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 2,825 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 54 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 2,825 delay minutes reported on DL 2462.

Cancellations sit at 1.72% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.34%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.0% 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 about 45 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,058 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 2462 is not only a VPS to MSP flight. It also flew MSP to VPS (290 flights, 83.9% 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. 290 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2462
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MSP to VPSthin sample	290	83.9%	42 min	1.38%	B

What to do with this

Booking DL 2462

For a booking, read DL 2462 as 78.2% on time with 1.72% cancelled over 290 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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