Flight number record

DL 2473

Delta Air Lines · New York to Minneapolis

Route: LGA → MSP
Departs: 07:55
Flights: 354
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2473, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2473 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 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 354 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2473's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 143 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights

Avg delay

86 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.54%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 354 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 2473 flies

DL 2473 is scheduled to leave New York (LGA) at 07:55 local time and reach Minneapolis (MSP) at 10:15. That slot held for 304 of the 354 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.

Departs 07:55304 flights85.9%

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 07:55 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2473 runs 3 points better at 91.9%. 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 2473 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 2473 is 8 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 10 points.

DL 2473 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2473thin sample	354	91.9%	86 min	2.54%	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 2473 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2473 held fairly steady: 94.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 92.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights94.5%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights88.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.8%
Apr–Jun 202680 flights92.4%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2473 ranged from 86.3% on Tuesday to 96.2% on Thursday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2473 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 2,401 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
39%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
National Airspace System
25%
Security
4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, 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 935 of the 2,401 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,401 delay minutes reported on DL 2473.

Cancellations run at 2.54%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.2% 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 354 flights under DL 2473 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. 354 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 2473

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2473: 2.54% of its 354 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.

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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