Flight number record
DL 2462
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Valparaiso
- Route
- MSP → VPS
- Departs
- 10:35
- Flights
- 296
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2462, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2462 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 40 minutes. That rests on 296 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2462's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 94 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 293 completed flights
Avg delay
39 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.01%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 296 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 2462 flies
DL 2462 flies MSP to VPS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:35, used on 56 of 296 flights, with 07:15 (36 flights) and 09:15 (33 flights) next.
- Departs 10:3556 flights18.9%
- Departs 07:1536 flights12.2%
- Departs 09:1533 flights11.1%
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 10:35 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2462 runs 3 points better at 86.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2462 next to MSP to VPS
Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2462thin sample | 296 | 86.7% | 39 min | 1.01% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–VPSthin sample | 296 | 86.7% | 39 min | 1.01% | A |
| All carriers on MSP–VPSthin sample | 296 | 86.7% | 39 min | 1.01% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 91.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.2%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 74 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 20259 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202568 flights91.2%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights81.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.3%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2462 did best on Monday at 95.5% on time and worst on Saturday at 80.4%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2462 runs when it is late
DL 2462 often beats the schedule: 81 of 293 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 21 of the 39 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 8 reached an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early81 flights27.6%
- Within 15 min173 flights59.0%
- 15–29 min late21 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.7%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 293 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 29 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 17 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 VPS.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2462
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 June 2026, 1 hour 52 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2026 | 1 hour 52 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 2 July 2026 | 1 hour 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 1 hour 31 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 12 July 2026 | 1 hour 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 February 2026 | 1 hour 21 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2462 runs late
Carrier accounts for 46% of the 1,531 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Carrier
- 38%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
- 7%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 702 of the 1,531 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,531 delay minutes reported on DL 2462.
Cancellations sit at 1.01% against a national 1.89%, 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 2.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 1,058 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.
DL 2462 is not only a MSP to VPS flight. It also flew VPS to MSP (296 flights, 75.7% 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. 296 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VPS to MSPthin sample | 296 | 75.7% | 46 min | 1.35% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2462
For a booking, DL 2462 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.7% on time and 1.01% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.