Flight number record
DL 2958
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Washington
- Route
- MSP → DCA
- Departs
- 07:35
- Flights
- 352
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 55 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 352 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2958's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 55 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.27%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 352 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 2958 flies
DL 2958 flies MSP to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:35, used on 82 of 352 flights, with 07:41 (51 flights) and 07:40 (47 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:3582 flights23.3%
- Departs 07:4151 flights14.5%
- Departs 07:4047 flights13.4%
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 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 83.1%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
DL 2958 next to MSP to DCA
Every carrier on MSP to DCA combined arrived on time 74.3% of the time across 2,574 flights, so DL 2958 is 9 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,695 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2958thin sample | 352 | 83.1% | 55 min | 2.27% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–DCA | 1,695 | 75.6% | 60 min | 2.12% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–DCA | 2,574 | 74.3% | 81 min | 3.22% | C− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2958 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2958 held fairly steady: 84.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 84.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights84.4%
- Oct–Dec 202584 flights80.5%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights82.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.4%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2958 did best on Monday at 93.9% on time and worst on Thursday at 73.5%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2958 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 68% of the 3,187 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.
- 68%Carrier
- 14%Extreme weather
- 12%National Airspace System
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 3,187 delay minutes reported on DL 2958.
Cancellations sit at 2.27% against a national 1.81%, 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 4.1% 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 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. 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.
DL 2958 is not only a MSP to DCA flight. It also flew DCA to MSP (352 flights, 79.1% 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. 352 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 | 352 | 79.1% | 75 min | 2.27% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2958
For a booking, read DL 2958 as 83.1% on time with 2.27% cancelled over 352 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- MSP to DCA, every carrier and departure
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.