Flight number record
DL 2699
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Raleigh
- Route
- MSP → RDU
- Departs
- 14:20
- Flights
- 290
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2699, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2699 lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 290 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 287 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.03%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 290 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 2699 flies
DL 2699 flies MSP to RDU without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:20, used on 94 of 290 flights, with 14:30 (60 flights) and 14:44 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 14:2094 flights32.4%
- Departs 14:3060 flights20.7%
- Departs 14:4431 flights10.7%
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 14:20 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2699 runs 7 points better at 79.1%. 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 2699 next to MSP to RDU
Every carrier on MSP to RDU combined arrived on time 82.7% of the time across 1,231 flights, so DL 2699 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 1,228 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2699thin sample | 290 | 79.1% | 57 min | 1.03% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–RDU | 1,228 | 82.8% | 56 min | 1.06% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–RDU | 1,231 | 82.7% | 56 min | 1.14% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2699 quarter by quarter
DL 2699 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 67.4%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 73 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 202577 flights82.9%
- Jan–Mar 202645 flights67.4%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights83.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights74.2%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2699 did best on Tuesday at 86.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 69.0%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2699 runs when it is late
DL 2699 often beats the schedule: 76 of 287 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early76 flights26.5%
- Within 15 min151 flights52.6%
- 15–29 min late19 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late24 flights8.4%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 287 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 60 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2699
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 5 hours 25 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 5 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 August 2026 | 3 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 April 2026 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 March 2026 | 2 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 December 2025 | 2 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2699 runs late
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 3,417 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,854 of the 3,417 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,417 delay minutes reported on DL 2699.
Cancellations sit at 1.03% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.9% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 980 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including RDU to MSP (221), but none flew often enough under DL 2699 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to RDU only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 290 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 2699
For a booking, read DL 2699 as 79.1% on time with 1.03% cancelled over 290 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to RDU, every carrier and departure
- RDU to MSP, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2932 on the same route78.1%
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Raleigh-Durham International (RDU) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
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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.