Flight number record

DL 2612

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Nashville

Route: MSP → BNA
Departs: 15:38
Flights: 264
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2612, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2612 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 264 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

77.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 260 completed flights

Avg delay

50 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.14%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 264 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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.

Schedule

When DL 2612 flies

DL 2612 flies MSP to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:38, used on 50 of 264 flights, with 15:20 (29 flights) and 15:15 (28 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:3850 flights18.9%
Departs 15:2029 flights11.0%
Departs 15:1528 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 15:38 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2612 runs 5 points better at 77.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2612 next to MSP to BNA

Every carrier on MSP to BNA combined arrived on time 81.5% of the time across 1,723 flights, so DL 2612 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 1,213 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

DL 2612 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2612thin sample	264	77.7%	50 min	1.14%	B
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–BNA	1,213	82.6%	49 min	1.48%	B
All carriers on MSP–BNA	1,723	81.5%	51 min	1.39%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2612 quarter by quarter

DL 2612 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 84.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 67.8%, a swing of 16 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 202560 flights79.7%
Oct–Dec 202568 flights77.6%
Jan–Mar 202676 flights84.0%
Apr–Jun 202660 flights67.8%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2612 did best on Thursday at 84.4% on time and worst on Friday at 68.1%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2612 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 44% of the 2,922 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.

National Airspace System
44%
Carrier
40%
Late-arriving aircraft
12%
Extreme weather
5%

44% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,272 minutes out of 2,922, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,922 delay minutes reported on DL 2612.

Cancellations sit at 1.14% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.38%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 695 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.

DL 2612 is not only a MSP to BNA flight. It also flew BNA to MSP (262 flights, 78.7% 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. 264 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2612
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
BNA to MSPthin sample	262	78.7%	60 min	1.53%	B

What to do with this

Booking DL 2612

For a booking, read DL 2612 as 77.7% on time with 1.14% cancelled over 264 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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