Flight number record

DL 2790

Delta Air Lines · Detroit to New Orleans

Route: DTW → MSY
Departs: 08:45
Flights: 362
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2790, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2790 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2790's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 67 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights

Avg delay

47 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.38%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 362 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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.

Schedule

When DL 2790 flies

DL 2790 flies DTW to MSY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:45, used on 82 of 362 flights, with 08:50 (47 flights) and 08:46 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:4582 flights22.7%
Departs 08:5047 flights13.0%
Departs 08:4640 flights11.0%

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 08:45 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2790 runs level with that at 84.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 2790 next to DTW to MSY

Every carrier on DTW to MSY combined arrived on time 84.8% of the time across 828 flights, so DL 2790 is about level with it. Delta flew 628 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 2790 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2790thin sample	362	84.3%	47 min	1.38%	B
All Delta Air Lines on DTW–MSY	628	85.0%	52 min	1.43%	A
All carriers on DTW–MSY	828	84.8%	56 min	1.21%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2790 quarter by quarter

DL 2790 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 90.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 76.1%, a swing of 14 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 flights76.1%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.3%
Apr–Jun 202688 flights90.5%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2790 did best on Saturday at 92.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 76.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2790 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 52% of the 2,627 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
52%
National Airspace System
25%
Late-arriving aircraft
18%
Extreme weather
5%

The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, 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 1,367 of the 2,627 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,627 delay minutes reported on DL 2790.

Cancellations sit at 1.38% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The 926 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.

DL 2790 is not only a DTW to MSY flight. It also flew MSY to DTW (287 flights, 85.1% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

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.

Other routes flown as DL 2790
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MSY to DTWthin sample	287	85.1%	51 min	1.74%	A

What to do with this

Booking DL 2790

For a booking, read DL 2790 as 84.3% on time with 1.38% cancelled over 362 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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