Flight number record

DL 2695

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to New Orleans

Route: MSP → MSY
Departs: 12:45
Flights: 356
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2695, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2695 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 356 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2695's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 349 completed flights

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.97%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 356 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 2695 flies

DL 2695 flies MSP to MSY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:45, used on 173 of 356 flights, with 12:50 (155 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:45173 flights48.6%
Departs 12:50155 flights43.5%

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 12:45 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2695 runs 6 points better at 84.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2695 next to MSP to MSY

Every carrier on MSP to MSY combined arrived on time 86.3% of the time across 440 flights, so DL 2695 is 2 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 2695 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2695thin sample	356	84.8%	49 min	1.97%	B
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–MSY	440	86.3%	50 min	2.05%	A
All carriers on MSP–MSY	440	86.3%	50 min	2.05%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2695 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2695 held fairly steady: 85.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 83.0% in Apr–Jun 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 202592 flights85.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.9%
Jan–Mar 202681 flights84.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.0%

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2695 did best on Tuesday at 98.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 66.0%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 32 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2695 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 51% of the 2,585 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.

Carrier
51%
National Airspace System
28%
Late-arriving aircraft
21%

The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,312 of the 2,585 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,585 delay minutes reported on DL 2695.

Cancellations sit at 1.97% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 1,040 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 2695 is not only a MSP to MSY flight. It also flew MSY to MSP (356 flights, 83.9% 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. 356 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 2695
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MSY to MSPthin sample	356	83.9%	95 min	2.25%	B

What to do with this

Booking DL 2695

For a booking, read DL 2695 as 84.8% on time with 1.97% cancelled over 356 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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