Flight number record

DL 2732

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to New York

Route: MSP → LGA
Departs: 15:15
Flights: 362
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2732, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2732 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2732 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 55 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights

Avg delay

79 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.93%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

13.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 362 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.4% 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 2732 flies

DL 2732 flies MSP to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:15, used on 126 of 362 flights, with 15:20 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:15126 flights34.8%
Departs 15:2037 flights10.2%

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 15:15 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2732 runs level with that at 72.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2732 next to MSP to LGA

Every carrier on MSP to LGA combined arrived on time 79.8% of the time across 1,887 flights, so DL 2732 is 8 points behind it. Delta flew 1,804 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 10 points.

DL 2732 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2732thin sample	362	72.1%	79 min	1.93%	C
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–LGA	1,804	79.8%	67 min	2.44%	B
All carriers on MSP–LGA	1,887	79.8%	67 min	2.60%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2732 quarter by quarter

DL 2732 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.1% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 61.5%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 91 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 flights70.1%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights61.5%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights82.1%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights75.3%

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2732 did best on Saturday at 79.6% on time and worst on Thursday at 62.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2732 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 62% of the 7,780 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.

National Airspace System
62%
Carrier
30%
Late-arriving aircraft
8%
Extreme weather
1%

62% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 4,785 minutes out of 7,780, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 7,780 delay minutes reported on DL 2732.

Cancellations sit at 1.93% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.10%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 13.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 1,020 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 362 flights under DL 2732 in the data flew MSP to LGA. 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. 362 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 2732

For a booking, DL 2732 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 13.4% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

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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