Flight number record
DL 2825
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Minneapolis
- Route
- ATL → MSP
- Departs
- 14:31
- Flights
- 347
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2825, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2825 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 347 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2825's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 68 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.29%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 347 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 2825 flies
DL 2825 flies ATL to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:31, used on 56 of 347 flights, with 13:47 (52 flights) and 13:55 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 14:3156 flights16.1%
- Departs 13:4752 flights15.0%
- Departs 13:5536 flights10.4%
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 14:31 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2825 runs 12 points better at 84.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2825 next to ATL to MSP
Every carrier on ATL to MSP combined arrived on time 79.9% of the time across 3,509 flights, so DL 2825 is 4 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,227 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2825thin sample | 347 | 84.1% | 58 min | 0.29% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MSP | 3,227 | 81.1% | 55 min | 0.40% | B+ |
| All carriers on ATL–MSP | 3,509 | 79.9% | 56 min | 0.43% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2825 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2825 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.9% in Jan–Mar 2026, 85.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 79.0% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights84.6%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights85.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights79.0%
Scale runs 70% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2825 did best on Saturday at 91.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 79.2%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2825 runs when it is late
DL 2825 often beats the schedule: 92 of 345 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 55 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 14 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early92 flights26.7%
- Within 15 min198 flights57.4%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late19 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 345 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 59 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2825
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 January 2026, 4 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 January 2026 | 4 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 April 2026 | 3 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 October 2025 | 3 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2825 runs late
Carrier accounts for 64% of the 3,189 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Carrier
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,033 of the 3,189 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,189 delay minutes reported on DL 2825.
Cancellations are rare at 0.29%, below the national 1.89% 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 4.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.
Every one of the 347 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. 347 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
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For a booking, read DL 2825 as 84.1% on time with 0.29% cancelled over 347 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.