Flight number record
DL 2846
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Newark
- Route
- MSP → EWR
- Departs
- 20:15
- Flights
- 353
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2846, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2846 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 353 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2846 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 59 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 332 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.38%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
12.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 353 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2846 flies
DL 2846 flies MSP to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:15, used on 85 of 353 flights, with 19:59 (43 flights) and 20:00 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 20:1585 flights24.1%
- Departs 19:5943 flights12.2%
- Departs 20:0040 flights11.3%
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 20:15 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2846 runs level with that at 71.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2846 next to MSP to EWR
Every carrier on MSP to EWR combined arrived on time 79.5% of the time across 2,225 flights, so DL 2846 is 8 points behind it. Delta flew 1,240 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2846thin sample | 353 | 71.4% | 70 min | 5.38% | C− |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–EWR | 1,240 | 78.1% | 68 min | 4.44% | B− |
| All carriers on MSP–EWR | 2,225 | 79.5% | 75 min | 4.63% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2846 quarter by quarter
DL 2846 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 60.3%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 71 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 202530 flights76.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights67.5%
- Jan–Mar 202679 flights70.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights60.3%
Scale runs 50% to 85%.
By weekday, DL 2846 did best on Wednesday at 84.0% on time and worst on Friday at 64.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2846 runs when it is late
DL 2846 often beats the schedule: 109 of 332 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 95 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 42 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early109 flights32.8%
- Within 15 min128 flights38.6%
- 15–29 min late27 flights8.1%
- 30–59 min late26 flights7.8%
- 1–2 hours late28 flights8.4%
- 2+ hours late14 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 332 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 98 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2846
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 November 2025, 11 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 November 2025 | 11 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 July 2026 | 3 hours 56 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 July 2026 | 3 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 March 2026 | 3 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 August 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2846 runs late
Carrier accounts for 46% of the 6,652 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Carrier
- 38%National Airspace System
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,062 of the 6,652 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,652 delay minutes reported on DL 2846.
Cancellations run at 5.38%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
12.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,008 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 353 flights under DL 2846 in the data flew MSP to EWR. 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. 353 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 2846
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2846: 5.38% of its 353 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to EWR, every carrier and departure
- EWR to MSP, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2864 on the same route90.0%
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.