Flight number record
DL 2918
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Baltimore
- Route
- MSP → BWI
- Departs
- 19:45
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2918, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2918 lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
78.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.38%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.
Fare search by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Schedule
When DL 2918 flies
DL 2918 flies MSP to BWI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:45, used on 61 of 363 flights, with 20:20 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 19:4561 flights16.8%
- Departs 20:2053 flights14.6%
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 19:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2918 runs 11 points better at 78.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Timetable by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Against the route
DL 2918 next to MSP to BWI
Every carrier on MSP to BWI combined arrived on time 82.1% of the time across 1,419 flights, so DL 2918 is 3 points behind it. Delta flew 923 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2918thin sample | 363 | 78.8% | 49 min | 1.38% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–BWI | 923 | 82.0% | 61 min | 1.52% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–BWI | 1,419 | 82.1% | 58 min | 1.62% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2918 quarter by quarter
DL 2918 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 86.5% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 72.5%, a swing of 14 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 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights86.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights72.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights77.4%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2918 did best on Wednesday at 88.2% on time and worst on Thursday at 62.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2918 runs when it is late
DL 2918 often beats the schedule: 117 of 358 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 76 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early117 flights32.7%
- Within 15 min165 flights46.1%
- 15–29 min late21 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late36 flights10.1%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 358 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 71 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 22 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at BWI.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2918
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 May 2026, 2 hours 9 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across May, December, March, January and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2026 | 2 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 December 2025 | 2 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 March 2026 | 1 hour 52 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 24 January 2026 | 1 hour 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 February 2026 | 1 hour 40 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why DL 2918 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,692 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Carrier
- 34%National Airspace System
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,512 of the 3,692 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,692 delay minutes reported on DL 2918.
Cancellations sit at 1.38% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 936 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 2918 in the data flew MSP to BWI. 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 2918
For a booking, read DL 2918 as 78.8% on time with 1.38% cancelled over 363 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to BWI, every carrier and departure
- BWI to MSP, the return direction
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.