Flight number record
DL 2901
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Minneapolis
- Route
- ATL → MSP
- Departs
- 12:15
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 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 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights
Avg delay
45 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.28%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 252 of 363 flights, with 12:17 (41 flights) next.
- Departs 12:15252 flights69.4%
- Departs 12:1741 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 12:15 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2901 runs 7 points better at 85.6%. 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 2901 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 2901 is 6 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 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2901thin sample | 363 | 85.6% | 45 min | 0.28% | A+ |
| 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 2901 quarter by quarter
DL 2901 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 80.0%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 73 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights80.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights82.3%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2901 did best on Wednesday at 94.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 76.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2901 runs when it is late
The 52 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 14 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early65 flights18.0%
- Within 15 min245 flights67.7%
- 15–29 min late20 flights5.5%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.0%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 362 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 46 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2901
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 2 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 December 2025 | 2 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 August 2026 | 1 hour 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 1 hour 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 January 2026 | 1 hour 29 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2901 runs late
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 2,340 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,261 of the 2,340 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,340 delay minutes reported on DL 2901.
Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, 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 3.9% 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 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: 85.6% on time and 0.28% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to ATL, the return direction
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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.