Flight number record

DL 2846

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Newark

Route: MSP → EWR
Departs: 19:45
Flights: 353
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 353 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2846 runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 78 extra late arrivals.

On time

69.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 334 completed flights

Avg delay

72 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.82%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

13.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 353 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.2% 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 2846 flies

DL 2846 flies MSP to EWR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:45, used on 97 of 353 flights, with 19:59 (43 flights) and 20:00 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:4597 flights27.5%
Departs 19:5943 flights12.2%
Departs 20:0040 flights11.3%

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 19:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2846 runs level with that at 69.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2846 next to MSP to EWR

Every carrier on MSP to EWR combined arrived on time 77.0% of the time across 2,208 flights, so DL 2846 is 7 points behind it. Delta flew 1,260 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 12 points.

DL 2846 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2846thin sample	353	69.8%	72 min	4.82%	C−
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–EWR	1,260	75.5%	73 min	3.97%	B−
All carriers on MSP–EWR	2,208	77.0%	84 min	4.08%	B−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 2025 at 60.0%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 88 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 202592 flights60.0%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights67.5%
Jan–Mar 202679 flights70.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.6%

Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2846 did best on Wednesday at 78.0% on time and worst on Friday at 64.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2846 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 49% of the 7,298 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.

National Airspace System
49%
Carrier
39%
Late-arriving aircraft
10%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, 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 2,813 of the 7,298 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,298 delay minutes reported on DL 2846.

Cancellations run at 4.82%, against 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 13.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. 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 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: 4.82% 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.

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.

Key figures