Flight number record

DL 2610

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Missoula

Route: MSP → MSO
Departs: 18:10
Flights: 360
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2610, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2610 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 360 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

On time

73.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights

Avg delay

68 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.56%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 360 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 2610 flies

DL 2610 flies MSP to MSO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:10, used on 84 of 360 flights, with 19:50 (38 flights) and 18:20 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:1084 flights23.3%
Departs 19:5038 flights10.6%
Departs 18:2038 flights10.6%

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 18:10 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2610 runs 6 points better at 73.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2610 next to MSP to MSO

Every carrier on MSP to MSO combined arrived on time 76.9% of the time across 489 flights, so DL 2610 is 3 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 8 points.

DL 2610 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2610thin sample	360	73.9%	68 min	0.56%	C+
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–MSO	489	76.9%	64 min	0.41%	B+
All carriers on MSP–MSO	489	76.9%	64 min	0.41%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2610 quarter by quarter

DL 2610 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 82.6% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 55.7%, a swing of 27 points on roughly 90 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 202587 flights82.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights79.1%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights55.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights78.0%

Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2610 did best on Thursday at 82.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 60.8%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2610 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 57% of the 6,304 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
57%
Late-arriving aircraft
25%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, 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 3,624 of the 6,304 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,304 delay minutes reported on DL 2610.

Cancellations are rare at 0.56%, below the national 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 1,013 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 360 flights under DL 2610 in the data flew MSP to MSO. 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. 360 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 2610

For a booking, read DL 2610 as 73.9% on time with 0.56% cancelled over 360 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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