Flight number record

DL 2901

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Minneapolis

Route: ATL → MSP
Departs: 12:15
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2901, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2901 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2901's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 89 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights

Avg delay

48 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.28%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 2901 flies

DL 2901 flies ATL to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:15, used on 285 of 363 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:15285 flights78.5%

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 12:15 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2901 runs 8 points better at 86.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2901 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 2901 is 5 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 5 points.

DL 2901 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2901thin sample	363	86.5%	48 min	0.28%	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 2901 quarter by quarter

DL 2901 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 92.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 80.0%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 91 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 flights90.2%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights80.0%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2901 did best on Tuesday at 94.3% on time and worst on Monday at 76.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2901 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 52% of the 2,342 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
52%
Late-arriving aircraft
27%
National Airspace System
19%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, 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 1,223 of the 2,342 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,342 delay minutes reported on DL 2901.

Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, 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 3.9% 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 363 flights under DL 2901 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. 363 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 2901

For a booking, DL 2901 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.5% on time and 0.28% 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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