Flight number record
DL 2610
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Missoula
- Route
- MSP → MSO
- Departs
- 18:10
- Flights
- 359
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 359 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
Key figures
On time
74.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.84%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 359 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 359 flights, with 21:55 (59 flights) and 18:20 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 18:1084 flights23.4%
- Departs 21:5559 flights16.4%
- Departs 18:2038 flights10.6%
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 18:10 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2610 runs 7 points better at 74.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2610 next to MSP to MSO
Every carrier on MSP to MSO combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 490 flights, so DL 2610 is 3 points behind it. 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 2610thin sample | 359 | 74.9% | 66 min | 0.84% | C+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–MSO | 490 | 77.6% | 63 min | 0.61% | B+ |
| All carriers on MSP–MSO | 490 | 77.6% | 63 min | 0.61% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2610 quarter by quarter
DL 2610 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 83.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 55.7%, a swing of 28 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 202525 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights79.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights55.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights78.0%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights83.3%
Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2610 did best on Tuesday at 82.0% on time and worst on Wednesday at 68.6%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2610 runs when it is late
The 89 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 34 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 30 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early70 flights19.7%
- Within 15 min196 flights55.2%
- 15–29 min late25 flights7.0%
- 30–59 min late34 flights9.6%
- 1–2 hours late18 flights5.1%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 355 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 92 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 18 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 MSO.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2610
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 January 2026, 12 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 January 2026 | 12 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 4 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 December 2025 | 2 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 February 2026 | 2 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 February 2026 | 2 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2610 runs late
Carrier accounts for 58% of the 5,908 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,411 of the 5,908 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,908 delay minutes reported on DL 2610.
Cancellations are rare at 0.84%, 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
8.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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.
Every one of the 359 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. 359 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 74.9% on time with 0.84% cancelled over 359 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
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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.