Flight number record

DL 2473

Delta Air Lines · New York to Minneapolis

Route: LGA → MSP
Departs: 07:55
Flights: 345
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 345 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2473's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 122 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 332 completed flights

Avg delay

107 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.48%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

4.5%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 345 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 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 301 of the 345 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.

Departs 07:55301 flights87.2%

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 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 level with that at 89.5%. 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 2473 next to LGA to MSP

Every carrier on LGA to MSP combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 1,815 flights, so DL 2473 is 8 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,811 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

DL 2473 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2473thin sample	345	89.5%	107 min	3.48%	A−
All Delta Air Lines on LGA–MSP	1,811	81.6%	89 min	2.93%	B
All carriers on LGA–MSP	1,815	81.6%	89 min	2.92%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2473 quarter by quarter

DL 2473 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 77.6%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 69 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 flights96.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights88.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.8%
Apr–Jun 202680 flights92.4%
Jul–Sep 202653 flights77.6%

Scale runs 70% to 100%.

By weekday, DL 2473 did best on Saturday at 96.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 83.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2473 runs when it is late

DL 2473 often beats the schedule: 157 of 332 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 35 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.

15+ min early157 flights47.3%
Within 15 min140 flights42.2%
15–29 min late12 flights3.6%
30–59 min late8 flights2.4%
1–2 hours late7 flights2.1%
2+ hours late8 flights2.4%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 332 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 20 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. 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 MSP.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2473

The latest arrival of the period was on 15 December 2025, 9 hours 36 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).

The latest arrivals of DL 2473 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
15 December 2025	9 hours 36 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
3 July 2026	8 hours 2 minutes	Carrier
29 July 2026	6 hours 17 minutes	Carrier
11 November 2025	5 hours 17 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
15 April 2026	5 hours 15 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 2473 runs late

Carrier accounts for 63% of the 3,751 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
63%
Late-arriving aircraft
19%
National Airspace System
15%
Security
2%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,375 of the 3,751 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,751 delay minutes reported on DL 2473.

Cancellations run at 3.48%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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 4.5% 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 1,020 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.

Every one of the 345 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. 345 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: 3.48% of its 345 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures