Flight number record
DL 2733
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to New York
- Route
- MSP → LGA
- Departs
- 19:59
- Flights
- 334
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2733, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2733 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 77.3%. The late ones land about 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 334 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 322 completed flights
Avg delay
50 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.29%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 334 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 2733 flies
DL 2733 flies MSP to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:59, used on 87 of 334 flights, with 20:00 (74 flights) and 19:55 (62 flights) next.
- Departs 19:5987 flights26.0%
- Departs 20:0074 flights22.2%
- Departs 19:5562 flights18.6%
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 19:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2733 runs 8 points better at 75.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2733 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 2733 is 3 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 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2733thin sample | 334 | 75.8% | 50 min | 3.29% | B− |
| 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 2733 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2733 held fairly steady: 76.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 72.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 77.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 76.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights76.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights72.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%
- Jul–Sep 202632 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2733 did best on Saturday at 84.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 63.6%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2733 runs when it is late
The 78 late arrivals split 29 under half an hour, 30 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early80 flights24.8%
- Within 15 min164 flights50.9%
- 15–29 min late29 flights9.0%
- 30–59 min late30 flights9.3%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 322 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 87 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 30 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 21 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LGA.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2733
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 December 2025, 3 hours 29 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 December 2025 | 3 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 February 2026 | 2 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 December 2025 | 2 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 March 2026 | 1 hour 59 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2733 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 57% of the 3,892 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%National Airspace System
- 36%Carrier
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,395 of the 3,892 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,892 delay minutes reported on DL 2733.
Cancellations run at 3.29%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 334 flights under DL 2733 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. 334 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 2733
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2733: 3.29% of its 334 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 50 minutes, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to LGA, every carrier and departure
- LGA to MSP, the return direction
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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.