Flight number record

DL 2773

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to San Antonio

Route: MSP → SAT
Departs: 18:35
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2773, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2773 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 363 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2773 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 63 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights

Avg delay

77 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.93%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.5% 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 2773 flies

DL 2773 flies MSP to SAT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:35, used on 83 of 363 flights, with 18:30 (75 flights) and 18:17 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:3583 flights22.9%
Departs 18:3075 flights20.7%
Departs 18:1738 flights10.5%

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 18:35 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2773 runs 3 points better at 71.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2773 next to MSP to SAT

Every carrier on MSP to SAT combined arrived on time 76.0% of the time across 892 flights, so DL 2773 is 5 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 10 points.

DL 2773 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2773thin sample	363	71.3%	77 min	1.93%	C
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–SAT	892	76.0%	64 min	1.12%	B
All carriers on MSP–SAT	892	76.0%	64 min	1.12%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2773 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2773 held fairly steady: 73.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 64.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 73.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 73.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights73.6%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights64.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights73.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights73.9%

Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2773 did best on Tuesday at 76.9% on time and worst on Thursday at 64.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2773 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 63% of the 7,888 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
63%
Late-arriving aircraft
24%
National Airspace System
12%

The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, 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 4,993 of the 7,888 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,888 delay minutes reported on DL 2773.

Cancellations sit at 1.93% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

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. 11.5% 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 1,097 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. 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 363 flights under DL 2773 in the data flew MSP to SAT. 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. 363 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 2773

For a booking, read DL 2773 as 71.3% on time with 1.93% cancelled over 363 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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