Flight number record

DL 2929

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Charlotte

Route: MSP → CLT
Departs: 19:45
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2929, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2929 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

On time

77.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 352 completed flights

Avg delay

78 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.22%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% 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 2929 flies

DL 2929 flies MSP to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:45, used on 83 of 361 flights, with 20:12 (63 flights) and 18:10 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:4583 flights23.0%
Departs 20:1263 flights17.5%
Departs 18:1038 flights10.5%

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 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 2929 runs 9 points better at 77.3%. 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 2929 next to MSP to CLT

Every carrier on MSP to CLT combined arrived on time 80.9% of the time across 2,446 flights, so DL 2929 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 1,183 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

DL 2929 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2929thin sample	361	77.3%	78 min	2.22%	B
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–CLT	1,183	80.2%	73 min	1.27%	B
All carriers on MSP–CLT	2,446	80.9%	78 min	1.64%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2929 quarter by quarter

DL 2929 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 84.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 68.5%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 90 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 202589 flights84.1%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights76.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights68.5%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2929 did best on Tuesday at 90.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 68.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2929 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 65% of the 6,246 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
65%
Late-arriving aircraft
19%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, 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 4,067 of the 6,246 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,246 delay minutes reported on DL 2929.

Cancellations sit at 2.22% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

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. 9.1% 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 930 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 361 flights under DL 2929 in the data flew MSP to CLT. 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. 361 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 2929

For a booking, read DL 2929 as 77.3% on time with 2.22% cancelled over 361 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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