Flight number record
DL 2553
Delta Air Lines · Phoenix to Minneapolis
- Route
- PHX → MSP
- Departs
- 07:05
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2553, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2553 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 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 365 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2553's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 166 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights
Avg delay
122 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 2553 flies
DL 2553 flies PHX to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:05, used on 101 of 365 flights, with 06:05 (92 flights) and 07:10 (62 flights) next.
- Departs 07:05101 flights27.7%
- Departs 06:0592 flights25.2%
- Departs 07:1062 flights17.0%
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 07:05 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2553 runs 5 points better at 93.9%. 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 2553 next to PHX to MSP
Every carrier on PHX to MSP combined arrived on time 83.7% of the time across 2,974 flights, so DL 2553 is 10 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,044 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2553 | 365 | 93.9% | 122 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on PHX–MSP | 2,044 | 86.1% | 84 min | 0.73% | A+ |
| All carriers on PHX–MSP | 2,974 | 83.7% | 78 min | 0.87% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2553 quarter by quarter
DL 2553 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 98.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 86.4%, a swing of 13 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights96.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights98.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.5%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2553 ranged from 88.5% on Wednesday to 98.0% on Sunday. With about 52 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2553 runs when it is late
DL 2553 often beats the schedule: 156 of 363 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 22 late arrivals split 5 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early156 flights43.0%
- Within 15 min185 flights51.0%
- 15–29 min late5 flights1.4%
- 30–59 min late7 flights1.9%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 363 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 24 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2553
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 February 2026, 7 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Five of the five worst days fell in February 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 February 2026 | 7 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 February 2026 | 6 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 February 2026 | 5 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 February 2026 | 5 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 February 2026 | 5 hours | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2553 runs late
Carrier accounts for 92% of the 2,688 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 92%Carrier
- 6%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 92%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,472 of the 2,688 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,688 delay minutes reported on DL 2553.
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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% 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 1,276 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 365 flights under DL 2553 in the data flew PHX 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. 365 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 2553
For a booking, DL 2553 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 93.9% on time and 0.55% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- PHX to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to PHX, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2274 on the same route81.8%
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- 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.