Flight number record

DL 2792

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Charlotte

Route: MSP → CLT
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 286
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2792, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2792 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 286 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2792's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 283 completed flights

Avg delay

73 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.05%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 286 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 2792 flies

DL 2792 flies MSP to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 91 of 286 flights, with 07:05 (49 flights) and 08:50 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:0091 flights31.8%
Departs 07:0549 flights17.1%
Departs 08:5038 flights13.3%

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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2792 runs 2 points worse at 87.3%. 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 2792 next to MSP to CLT

Every carrier on MSP to CLT combined arrived on time 80.9% of the time across 2,446 flights, so DL 2792 is 6 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,183 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 6 points.

DL 2792 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2792thin sample	286	87.3%	73 min	1.05%	A
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–CLT	1,183	80.2%	73 min	1.27%	B
All carriers on MSP–CLT	2,446	80.9%	78 min	1.64%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2792 quarter by quarter

DL 2792 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 94.1% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.2%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 72 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 202586 flights94.1%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights81.2%
Jan–Mar 202662 flights85.0%
Apr–Jun 202658 flights87.9%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2792 did best on Tuesday at 93.0% on time and worst on Monday at 81.0%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2792 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 78% of the 2,635 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
78%
National Airspace System
18%
Late-arriving aircraft
3%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 78%, 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 2,067 of the 2,635 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,635 delay minutes reported on DL 2792.

Cancellations sit at 1.05% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 930 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.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including CLT to MSP (34), but none flew often enough under DL 2792 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to CLT only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 286 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 2792

For a booking, DL 2792 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.3% on time and 1.05% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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