Flight number record
DL 2732
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to New York
- Route
- MSP → LGA
- Departs
- 15:15
- Flights
- 359
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 359 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2732 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 58 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.23%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
12.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 359 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 138 of 359 flights, with 15:20 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 15:15138 flights38.4%
- Departs 15:2037 flights10.3%
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 15:15 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2732 runs level with that at 71.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2732 next to MSP to LGA
Every carrier on MSP to LGA combined arrived on time 78.8% of the time across 1,813 flights, so DL 2732 is 7 points behind it. Delta flew 1,809 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2732thin sample | 359 | 71.5% | 78 min | 2.23% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–LGA | 1,809 | 78.8% | 67 min | 2.93% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–LGA | 1,813 | 78.8% | 67 min | 2.92% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 90 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 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights61.5%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights82.1%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights75.3%
- Jul–Sep 202659 flights68.5%
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2732 did best on Wednesday at 78.4% on time and worst on Thursday at 59.2%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2732 runs when it is late
DL 2732 often beats the schedule: 122 of 347 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 99 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 43 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early122 flights35.2%
- Within 15 min126 flights36.3%
- 15–29 min late28 flights8.1%
- 30–59 min late28 flights8.1%
- 1–2 hours late23 flights6.6%
- 2+ hours late20 flights5.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 347 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 103 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2732
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 August 2026, 6 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as national airspace system delay.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2026 | 6 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 5 hours 31 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 12 June 2026 | 5 hours 11 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 August 2026 | 3 hours 59 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 July 2026 | 3 hours 44 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2732 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 57% of the 7,737 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%National Airspace System
- 35%Carrier
- 7%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,704 of the 7,737 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,737 delay minutes reported on DL 2732.
Cancellations sit at 2.23% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.11%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
12.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.
Every one of the 359 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. 359 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. 12.4% 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.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to LGA, every carrier and departure
- LGA to MSP, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 2719 on the same route88.4%
- Delta Air Lines 2733 on the same route75.8%
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.