Flight number record

DL 2967

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: MSP → DFW
Departs: 20:40
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2967, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2967 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2967 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 48 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.19%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% 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 2967 flies

DL 2967 flies MSP to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:40, used on 38 of 365 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:4038 flights10.4%

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 20:40 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2967 runs 2 points better at 72.8%. 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 2967 next to MSP to DFW

Every carrier on MSP to DFW combined arrived on time 76.4% of the time across 3,261 flights, so DL 2967 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 1,411 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 9 points.

DL 2967 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2967	365	72.8%	62 min	2.19%	C
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–DFW	1,411	77.9%	59 min	1.35%	B
All carriers on MSP–DFW	3,261	76.4%	83 min	2.45%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2967 quarter by quarter

DL 2967 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 66.7%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights67.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights66.7%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2967 did best on Saturday at 79.6% on time and worst on Friday at 67.3%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2967 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 5,901 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
47%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
National Airspace System
19%
Extreme weather
7%

The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, 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 2,747 of the 5,901 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,901 delay minutes reported on DL 2967.

Cancellations sit at 2.19% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.10%.

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. 9.9% 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 852 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 365 flights under DL 2967 in the data flew MSP to DFW. 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. 365 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 2967

For a booking, read DL 2967 as 72.8% on time with 2.19% cancelled over 365 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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