Flight number record

DL 2703

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Philadelphia

Route: MSP → PHL
Departs: 20:20
Flights: 354
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2703, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2703 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 354 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

75.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights

Avg delay

86 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.69%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 354 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 2703 flies

DL 2703 flies MSP to PHL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:20, used on 128 of 354 flights, with 20:25 (52 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:20128 flights36.2%
Departs 20:2552 flights14.7%

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 20:20 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2703 runs 5 points better at 75.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2703 next to MSP to PHL

Every carrier on MSP to PHL combined arrived on time 79.9% of the time across 2,022 flights, so DL 2703 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 1,211 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

DL 2703 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2703thin sample	354	75.6%	86 min	1.69%	B
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–PHL	1,211	81.9%	74 min	2.23%	B
All carriers on MSP–PHL	2,022	79.9%	97 min	3.26%	B−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2703 quarter by quarter

DL 2703 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 82.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 64.9%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 89 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 202592 flights74.7%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights82.0%
Jan–Mar 202681 flights64.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.1%

Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2703 did best on Thursday at 84.0% on time and worst on Friday at 60.8%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2703 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 71% of the 7,305 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
71%
Late-arriving aircraft
16%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 71%, 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 5,183 of the 7,305 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,305 delay minutes reported on DL 2703.

Cancellations sit at 1.69% against a national 1.81%, 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 8.1%. 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 an hour and a half, 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. 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.

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 75.6% on time with 1.69% cancelled over 354 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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