Flight number record
DL 2703
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Philadelphia
- Route
- MSP → PHL
- Departs
- 20:25
- Flights
- 354
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2703, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2703 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 354 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.69%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 354 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2703 flies
DL 2703 flies MSP to PHL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:25, used on 109 of 354 flights, with 20:20 (107 flights) next.
- Departs 20:25109 flights30.8%
- Departs 20:20107 flights30.2%
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 20:25 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2703 runs 6 points better at 76.1%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2703 next to MSP to PHL
Every carrier on MSP to PHL combined arrived on time 79.4% of the time across 2,085 flights, so DL 2703 is 3 points behind it. Delta flew 1,217 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2703thin sample | 354 | 76.1% | 80 min | 1.69% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–PHL | 1,217 | 81.3% | 75 min | 2.88% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–PHL | 2,085 | 79.4% | 93 min | 3.93% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2703 quarter by quarter
DL 2703 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 64.9%, a swing of 25 points on roughly 71 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 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights82.0%
- Jan–Mar 202681 flights64.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights70.5%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 2703 did best on Monday at 81.1% on time and worst on Friday at 62.7%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2703 runs when it is late
DL 2703 often beats the schedule: 104 of 348 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 83 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 34 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 28 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early104 flights29.9%
- Within 15 min161 flights46.3%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.0%
- 30–59 min late34 flights9.8%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights6.0%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 348 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 76 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2703
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 January 2026, 14 hours 29 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 14 January 2026 | 14 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 January 2026 | 12 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 February 2026 | 11 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 June 2026 | 3 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 February 2026 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2703 runs late
Carrier accounts for 70% of the 6,622 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 70%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,636 of the 6,622 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,622 delay minutes reported on DL 2703.
Cancellations sit at 1.69% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.0% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 981 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 354 flights under DL 2703 in the data flew MSP to PHL. 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. 354 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 2703
For a booking, read DL 2703 as 76.1% on time with 1.69% cancelled over 354 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.