Flight number record
DL 2654
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Minneapolis
- Route
- ATL → MSP
- Departs
- 17:59
- Flights
- 350
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2654, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2654 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 350 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2654 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 87 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 350 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2654 flies
DL 2654 flies ATL to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:59, used on 65 of 350 flights, with 17:00 (59 flights) and 16:38 (56 flights) next.
- Departs 17:5965 flights18.6%
- Departs 17:0059 flights16.9%
- Departs 16:3856 flights16.0%
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 17:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2654 runs level with that at 68.6%. 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 2654 next to ATL to MSP
Every carrier on ATL to MSP combined arrived on time 79.9% of the time across 3,509 flights, so DL 2654 is 11 points behind it. Delta flew 3,227 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2654thin sample | 350 | 68.6% | 61 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MSP | 3,227 | 81.1% | 55 min | 0.40% | B+ |
| All carriers on ATL–MSP | 3,509 | 79.9% | 56 min | 0.43% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2654 quarter by quarter
DL 2654 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 39.3%, a swing of 37 points on roughly 70 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 flights70.0%
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights75.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights73.6%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights39.3%
Scale runs 30% to 80%.
By weekday, DL 2654 did best on Wednesday at 78.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 58.8%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2654 runs when it is late
The 110 late arrivals split 46 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 36 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early54 flights15.4%
- Within 15 min186 flights53.1%
- 15–29 min late46 flights13.1%
- 30–59 min late28 flights8.0%
- 1–2 hours late19 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late17 flights4.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
18 of 107 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 21 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 MSP.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2654
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 5 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across December, July, March and August, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 5 hours 26 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 17 July 2026 | 3 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 3 hours 47 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 16 March 2026 | 3 hours 35 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 4 August 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2654 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 6,741 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Carrier
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%National Airspace System
- 16%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 16% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,741 delay minutes reported on DL 2654.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
10.3% 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 907 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 350 flights under DL 2654 in the data flew ATL to MSP. 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. 350 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 2654
For a booking, DL 2654 is one of the weaker ways to fly ATL to MSP: 11 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
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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.