Flight number record
DL 2695
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to New Orleans
- Route
- MSP → MSY
- Departs
- 12:45
- Flights
- 356
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 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 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 349 completed flights
Avg delay
47 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.97%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 356 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 175 of 356 flights, with 12:50 (160 flights) next.
- Departs 12:45175 flights49.2%
- Departs 12:50160 flights44.9%
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 12:45 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2695 runs 6 points better at 84.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2695 next to MSP to MSY
Every carrier on MSP to MSY combined arrived on time 86.1% of the time across 440 flights, so DL 2695 is 2 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2695thin sample | 356 | 84.5% | 47 min | 1.97% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–MSY | 440 | 86.1% | 48 min | 2.05% | A |
| All carriers on MSP–MSY | 440 | 86.1% | 48 min | 2.05% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2695 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2695 held fairly steady: 86.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.6% in Jan–Mar 2026, 83.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 83.6% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.9%
- Jan–Mar 202681 flights84.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.6%
Scale runs 75% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2695 did best on Tuesday at 98.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 68.1%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2695 runs when it is late
DL 2695 often beats the schedule: 101 of 349 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 27 of the 54 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 12 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early101 flights28.9%
- Within 15 min194 flights55.6%
- 15–29 min late27 flights7.7%
- 30–59 min late15 flights4.3%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 349 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 40 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 20 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 MSY.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2695
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 November 2025, 3 hours 13 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 November 2025 | 3 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 May 2026 | 2 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 June 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 October 2025 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2695 runs late
Carrier accounts for 51% of the 2,511 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Carrier
- 32%National Airspace System
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,290 of the 2,511 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,511 delay minutes reported on DL 2695.
Cancellations sit at 1.97% against a national 1.89%, 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 3.4% 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 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.
DL 2695 is not only a MSP to MSY flight. It also flew MSY to MSP (356 flights, 81.3% 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSY to MSPthin sample | 356 | 81.3% | 91 min | 2.25% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2695
For a booking, read DL 2695 as 84.5% on time with 1.97% cancelled over 356 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (MSY) 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.