Flight number record
DL 2612
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Nashville
- Route
- MSP → BNA
- Departs
- 15:29
- Flights
- 270
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average. That rests on 270 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 265 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.48%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 270 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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.
Fare search by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Schedule
When DL 2612 flies
DL 2612 flies MSP to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:29, used on 67 of 270 flights, with 15:38 (50 flights) next.
- Departs 15:2967 flights24.8%
- Departs 15:3850 flights18.5%
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 15:29 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2612 runs 5 points better at 77.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Timetable by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Against the route
DL 2612 next to MSP to BNA
Every carrier on MSP to BNA combined arrived on time 81.0% of the time across 1,777 flights, so DL 2612 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 1,220 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2612thin sample | 270 | 77.0% | 53 min | 1.48% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–BNA | 1,220 | 82.9% | 48 min | 1.80% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–BNA | 1,777 | 81.0% | 49 min | 1.58% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 68 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 202517 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202568 flights77.6%
- Jan–Mar 202676 flights84.0%
- Apr–Jun 202660 flights67.8%
- Jul–Sep 202649 flights70.2%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2612 did best on Tuesday at 84.6% on time and worst on Friday at 68.1%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2612 runs when it is late
The 61 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early62 flights23.4%
- Within 15 min142 flights53.6%
- 15–29 min late27 flights10.2%
- 30–59 min late14 flights5.3%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights5.7%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 265 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 44 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 28 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 BNA.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2612
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 June 2026, 4 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 June 2026 | 4 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 March 2026 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 2 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 November 2025 | 2 hours 10 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 10 July 2026 | 2 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2612 runs late
Carrier accounts for 49% of the 3,228 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Carrier
- 36%National Airspace System
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
36% 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 1,167 minutes out of 3,228, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,228 delay minutes reported on DL 2612.
Cancellations sit at 1.48% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.37%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.5% 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 roughly 55 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.
DL 2612 is not only a MSP to BNA flight. It also flew BNA to MSP (268 flights, 77.2% 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. 270 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BNA to MSPthin sample | 268 | 77.2% | 59 min | 1.87% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2612
For a booking, read DL 2612 as 77.0% on time with 1.48% cancelled over 270 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to BNA, every carrier and departure
- BNA to MSP, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1144 on the same route77.5%
- Delta Air Lines 2724 on the same route89.0%
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Nashville International (BNA) 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
- The best day of the week to fly, and why it is the second lever
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.