Flight number record

DL 2825

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Minneapolis

Route: ATL → MSP
Departs: 13:47
Flights: 345
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2825, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2825 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 345 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2825's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 75 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights

Avg delay

57 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.29%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 345 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 2825 flies

DL 2825 flies ATL to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:47, used on 52 of 345 flights, with 13:55 (36 flights) and 13:15 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:4752 flights15.1%
Departs 13:5536 flights10.4%
Departs 13:1535 flights10.1%

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 13:47 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2825 runs 6 points better at 85.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2825 next to ATL to MSP

Every carrier on ATL to MSP combined arrived on time 81.2% of the time across 3,524 flights, so DL 2825 is 4 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,221 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

DL 2825 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2825thin sample	345	85.1%	57 min	0.29%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MSP	3,221	82.1%	56 min	0.37%	B+
All carriers on ATL–MSP	3,524	81.2%	57 min	0.48%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2825 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2825 held fairly steady: 84.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 85.6% 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 202590 flights84.4%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights84.6%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights85.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.6%

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2825 ranged from 81.2% on Sunday to 90.0% on Tuesday. With about 49 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2825 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 70% of the 2,928 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
70%
Late-arriving aircraft
20%
National Airspace System
9%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, 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 2,050 of the 2,928 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,928 delay minutes reported on DL 2825.

Cancellations are rare at 0.29%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.5% 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 907 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 345 flights under DL 2825 in the data flew ATL to MSP. 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. 345 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 2825

For a booking, DL 2825 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.1% on time and 0.29% 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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