Flight number record

DL 2724

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Nashville

Route: MSP → BNA
Departs: 06:55
Flights: 338
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2724, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2724 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 55 minutes. That rests on 338 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2724's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 115 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 331 completed flights

Avg delay

54 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.18%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 338 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2724 flies

DL 2724 flies MSP to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:55, used on 218 of 338 flights, with 07:14 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:55218 flights64.5%
Departs 07:1446 flights13.6%

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 06:55 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2724 runs level with that at 89.1%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 2724 next to MSP to BNA

Every carrier on MSP to BNA combined arrived on time 81.5% of the time across 1,723 flights, so DL 2724 is 8 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,213 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

DL 2724 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2724thin sample	338	89.1%	54 min	1.18%	A
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–BNA	1,213	82.6%	49 min	1.48%	B
All carriers on MSP–BNA	1,723	81.5%	51 min	1.39%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2724 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2724 held fairly steady: 93.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights93.5%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights85.9%
Jan–Mar 202676 flights86.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.8%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2724 did best on Wednesday at 96.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 80.4%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2724 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 64% of the 1,956 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
64%
National Airspace System
28%
Extreme weather
8%

The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, 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 1,252 of the 1,956 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,956 delay minutes reported on DL 2724.

Cancellations sit at 1.18% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.89%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 695 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.

DL 2724 is not only a MSP to BNA flight. It also flew BNA to MSP (338 flights, 88.3% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 338 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2724
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
BNA to MSPthin sample	338	88.3%	78 min	1.48%	A

What to do with this

Booking DL 2724

For a booking, DL 2724 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.1% on time and 1.18% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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