Flight number record

DL 2699

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Raleigh

Route: MSP → RDU
Departs: 14:30
Flights: 276
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2699, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2699 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 276 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

76.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 272 completed flights

Avg delay

56 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.09%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 276 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 2699 flies

DL 2699 flies MSP to RDU without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:30, used on 60 of 276 flights, with 14:35 (38 flights) and 14:20 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:3060 flights21.7%
Departs 14:3538 flights13.8%
Departs 14:2037 flights13.4%

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 14:30 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2699 runs 4 points better at 76.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2699 next to MSP to RDU

Every carrier on MSP to RDU combined arrived on time 81.4% of the time across 1,230 flights, so DL 2699 is 5 points behind it. Delta flew 1,227 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 5 points.

DL 2699 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2699thin sample	276	76.8%	56 min	1.09%	B
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–RDU	1,227	81.5%	56 min	1.06%	B
All carriers on MSP–RDU	1,230	81.4%	56 min	1.14%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 Jul–Sep 2025 at 67.2%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 69 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 202565 flights67.2%
Oct–Dec 202577 flights82.9%
Jan–Mar 202645 flights67.4%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights83.1%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2699 did best on Tuesday at 90.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 68.3%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2699 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 3,527 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
55%
Late-arriving aircraft
24%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, 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 1,926 of the 3,527 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,527 delay minutes reported on DL 2699.

Cancellations sit at 1.09% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.36%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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. 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.

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. 276 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 76.8% on time with 1.09% cancelled over 276 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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