Flight number record
DL 2668
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Minneapolis
- Route
- ATL → MSP
- Departs
- 07:25
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2668, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2668 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2668's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 147 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
51 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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.
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Schedule
When DL 2668 flies
DL 2668 flies ATL to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:25, used on 250 of 364 flights, with 07:30 (88 flights) next.
- Departs 07:25250 flights68.7%
- Departs 07:3088 flights24.2%
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 07:25 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2668 runs 3 points better at 92.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2668 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 2668 is 12 points ahead of 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 beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2668thin sample | 364 | 92.0% | 51 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| 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 2668 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2668 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.0% in Jan–Mar 2026, 93.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 90.2% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights92.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.2%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2668 did best on Thursday at 100.0% on time and worst on Wednesday at 86.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2668 runs when it is late
DL 2668 often beats the schedule: 97 of 361 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 29 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early97 flights26.9%
- Within 15 min235 flights65.1%
- 15–29 min late13 flights3.6%
- 30–59 min late7 flights1.9%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 33 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 17 still arrived on time. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2668
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 January 2026, 2 hours 21 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 January 2026 | 2 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 September 2025 | 2 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 November 2025 | 2 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 2 hours | Carrier |
| 1 May 2026 | 1 hour 53 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2668 runs late
Carrier accounts for 70% of the 1,489 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 70%Carrier
- 30%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,035 of the 1,489 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,489 delay minutes reported on DL 2668.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
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 364 flights under DL 2668 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. 364 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 2668
For a booking, DL 2668 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.0% on time and 0.55% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
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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.