Flight number record
DL 2773
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to San Antonio
- Route
- MSP → SAT
- Departs
- 18:35
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2773 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 55 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.93%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
11.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
Fare search by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
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 81 of 363 flights, with 18:30 (48 flights) and 18:17 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 18:3581 flights22.3%
- Departs 18:3048 flights13.2%
- Departs 18:1738 flights10.5%
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 18:35 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2773 runs 4 points better at 71.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Timetable by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Against the route
DL 2773 next to MSP to SAT
Every carrier on MSP to SAT combined arrived on time 77.0% of the time across 899 flights, so DL 2773 is 5 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2773thin sample | 363 | 71.8% | 66 min | 1.93% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–SAT | 899 | 77.0% | 57 min | 1.00% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–SAT | 899 | 77.0% | 57 min | 1.00% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2773 quarter by quarter
DL 2773 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 83.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 64.4%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 73 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 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights64.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights73.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights73.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights72.1%
Scale runs 55% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2773 did best on Saturday at 78.4% on time and worst on Friday at 64.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2773 runs when it is late
DL 2773 often beats the schedule: 99 of 355 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 100 late arrivals split 35 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 39 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early99 flights27.9%
- Within 15 min156 flights43.9%
- 15–29 min late35 flights9.9%
- 30–59 min late26 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late18 flights5.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 355 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
23 of 104 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. In the other direction, 19 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 SAT.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2773
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 March 2026, 3 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 March 2026 | 3 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 3 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 May 2026 | 3 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 December 2025 | 3 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 January 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2773 runs late
Carrier accounts for 57% of the 6,550 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Carrier
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,702 of the 6,550 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,550 delay minutes reported on DL 2773.
Cancellations sit at 1.93% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
11.0% 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 1,097 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.
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, DL 2773 is one of the weaker ways to fly MSP to SAT: 5 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to SAT, every carrier and departure
- SAT to MSP, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2667 on the same route81.7%
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- San Antonio International (SAT) 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.