Flight number record
DL 2958
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Washington
- Route
- MSP → DCA
- Departs
- 07:35
- Flights
- 351
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2958, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2958 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average. That rests on 351 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2958's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 64 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.71%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 351 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 2958 flies
DL 2958 flies MSP to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:35, used on 90 of 351 flights, with 07:36 (76 flights) and 07:22 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 07:3590 flights25.6%
- Departs 07:3676 flights21.7%
- Departs 07:2238 flights10.8%
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 07:35 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2958 runs 6 points worse at 83.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2958 next to MSP to DCA
Every carrier on MSP to DCA combined arrived on time 74.6% of the time across 2,632 flights, so DL 2958 is 9 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,701 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2958thin sample | 351 | 83.7% | 53 min | 1.71% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–DCA | 1,701 | 75.9% | 61 min | 1.94% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–DCA | 2,632 | 74.6% | 85 min | 3.19% | C− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2958 quarter by quarter
DL 2958 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 80.5%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 70 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202584 flights80.5%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights82.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.4%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights83.6%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2958 did best on Monday at 92.2% on time and worst on Thursday at 75.5%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2958 runs when it is late
DL 2958 often beats the schedule: 152 of 344 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 56 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early152 flights44.2%
- Within 15 min136 flights39.5%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late22 flights6.4%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights2.9%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 344 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 56 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2958
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 December 2025, 5 hours 41 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 14 December 2025 | 5 hours 41 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 January 2026 | 4 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 January 2026 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 May 2026 | 1 hour 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 June 2026 | 1 hour 34 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2958 runs late
Carrier accounts for 72% of the 2,964 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 72%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 13%Extreme weather
- 1%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 13% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,964 delay minutes reported on DL 2958.
Cancellations sit at 1.71% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.8% 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 931 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.
DL 2958 is not only a MSP to DCA flight. It also flew DCA to MSP (350 flights, 76.9% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 351 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DCA to MSPthin sample | 350 | 76.9% | 76 min | 2.29% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2958
For a booking, read DL 2958 as 83.7% on time with 1.71% cancelled over 351 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.