Flight number record
DL 2594
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Philadelphia
- Route
- MSP → PHL
- Departs
- 14:25
- Flights
- 329
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2594, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2594 sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 329 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 312 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.56%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
12.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 329 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2594 flies
DL 2594 flies MSP to PHL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:25, used on 105 of 329 flights, with 14:30 (55 flights) and 14:34 (46 flights) next.
- Departs 14:25105 flights31.9%
- Departs 14:3055 flights16.7%
- Departs 14:3446 flights14.0%
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 14:25 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2594 runs 3 points better at 75.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2594 next to MSP to PHL
Every carrier on MSP to PHL combined arrived on time 79.4% of the time across 2,085 flights, so DL 2594 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 1,217 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2594thin sample | 329 | 75.0% | 75 min | 4.56% | B− |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–PHL | 1,217 | 81.3% | 75 min | 2.88% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–PHL | 2,085 | 79.4% | 93 min | 3.93% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2594 quarter by quarter
DL 2594 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 86.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 53.8%, a swing of 33 points on roughly 66 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 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202584 flights73.2%
- Jan–Mar 202681 flights86.7%
- Apr–Jun 202677 flights78.1%
- Jul–Sep 202657 flights53.8%
Scale runs 45% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2594 did best on Wednesday at 85.7% on time and worst on Monday at 64.7%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2594 runs when it is late
DL 2594 often beats the schedule: 89 of 312 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 78 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 38 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early89 flights28.5%
- Within 15 min145 flights46.5%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late19 flights6.1%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights8.0%
- 2+ hours late13 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 312 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 76 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2594
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 August 2026, 5 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2026 | 5 hours 19 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 August 2026 | 4 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 12 December 2025 | 4 hours | Carrier |
| 10 July 2026 | 3 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 July 2026 | 3 hours 52 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2594 runs late
Carrier accounts for 43% of the 5,873 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Carrier
- 38%National Airspace System
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,540 of the 5,873 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,873 delay minutes reported on DL 2594.
Cancellations run at 4.56%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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
12.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 981 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 2594 is not only a MSP to PHL flight. It also flew PHL to MSP (319 flights, 72.3% 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. 329 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHL to MSPthin sample | 319 | 72.3% | 153 min | 4.70% | C− |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2594
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2594: 4.56% of its 329 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to PHL, every carrier and departure
- PHL to MSP, the return direction
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- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Philadelphia International (PHL) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
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- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.