Flight number record
DL 2717
Delta Air Lines · San Antonio to Minneapolis
- Route
- SAT → MSP
- Departs
- 06:30
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2717, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2717 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2717's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 165 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
92 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.19%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 2717 flies
DL 2717 flies SAT to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:30, used on 67 of 365 flights, with 06:25 (62 flights) and 06:32 (59 flights) next.
- Departs 06:3067 flights18.4%
- Departs 06:2562 flights17.0%
- Departs 06:3259 flights16.2%
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 06:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2717 runs 5 points better at 93.8%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2717 next to SAT to MSP
Every carrier on SAT to MSP combined arrived on time 86.0% of the time across 898 flights, so DL 2717 is 8 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2717 | 365 | 93.8% | 92 min | 2.19% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on SAT–MSP | 898 | 86.0% | 66 min | 1.22% | A |
| All carriers on SAT–MSP | 898 | 86.0% | 66 min | 1.22% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2717 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2717 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 96.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 94.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 91.8% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights96.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights93.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.8%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2717 ranged from 90.0% on Monday to 97.9% on Sunday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2717 runs when it is late
DL 2717 often beats the schedule: 168 of 355 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 22 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early168 flights47.3%
- Within 15 min165 flights46.5%
- 15–29 min late8 flights2.3%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.0%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 355 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 22 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. Only 6 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2717
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 September 2025, 9 hours 27 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2025 | 9 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 January 2026 | 4 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 October 2025 | 3 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 February 2026 | 3 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 August 2026 | 1 hour 56 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2717 runs late
Carrier accounts for 88% of the 2,030 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 88%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 88%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,787 of the 2,030 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,030 delay minutes reported on DL 2717.
Cancellations sit at 2.19% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.55%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.0% 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 1,097 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 365 flights under DL 2717 in the data flew SAT to MSP. 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. 365 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.
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For a booking, read DL 2717 as 93.8% on time with 2.19% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
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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.