Flight number record

DL 2819

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Charlotte

Route: MSP → CLT
Departs: 12:55
Flights: 331
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2819, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2819 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 331 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

On time

78.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 327 completed flights

Avg delay

66 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.91%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 331 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% 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 2819 flies

DL 2819 flies MSP to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:55, used on 90 of 331 flights, with 12:50 (79 flights) and 13:00 (39 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:5590 flights27.2%
Departs 12:5079 flights23.9%
Departs 13:0039 flights11.8%

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 12:55 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2819 runs level with that at 78.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2819 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 2819 is 3 points behind 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 trails by 3 points.

DL 2819 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2819thin sample	331	78.3%	66 min	0.91%	B+
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 2819 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2819 held fairly steady: 79.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 77.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 77.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 78.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 2 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights79.3%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights77.5%
Jan–Mar 202670 flights77.9%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights78.2%

Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2819 did best on Tuesday at 90.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 65.7%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2819 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 58% of the 4,702 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
58%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, 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 2,720 of the 4,702 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,702 delay minutes reported on DL 2819.

Cancellations sit at 0.91% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

8.3% 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 about 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 two other city pairs in the data, including CLT to MSP (129) and MCO to MSP (16), but none flew often enough under DL 2819 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. 331 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 2819

For a booking, read DL 2819 as 78.3% on time with 0.91% cancelled over 331 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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