Flight number record
DL 2967
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- MSP → DFW
- Departs
- 19:50
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 352 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.47%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 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.
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Schedule
When DL 2967 flies
DL 2967 flies MSP to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:50, used on 57 of 365 flights, with 20:40 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 19:5057 flights15.6%
- Departs 20:4038 flights10.4%
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 19:50 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2967 runs 8 points better at 75.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2967 next to MSP to DFW
Every carrier on MSP to DFW combined arrived on time 77.8% of the time across 3,312 flights, so DL 2967 is 2 points behind it. Delta flew 1,413 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2967 | 365 | 75.9% | 55 min | 2.47% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–DFW | 1,413 | 79.6% | 56 min | 1.49% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–DFW | 3,312 | 77.8% | 83 min | 2.23% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights66.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights78.7%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2967 ranged from 71.2% on Thursday to 82.4% on Monday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2967 runs when it is late
DL 2967 often beats the schedule: 101 of 352 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 85 late arrivals split 30 under half an hour, 29 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 26 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early101 flights28.7%
- Within 15 min166 flights47.2%
- 15–29 min late30 flights8.5%
- 30–59 min late29 flights8.2%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights5.7%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 352 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 83 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 21 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 DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2967
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 December 2025, 5 hours 49 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 28 December 2025 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 April 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 February 2026 | 2 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 September 2025 | 2 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 February 2026 | 2 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2967 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 4,691 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 7%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,951 of the 4,691 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,691 delay minutes reported on DL 2967.
Cancellations sit at 2.47% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.10%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.4% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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.
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 75.9% on time with 2.47% cancelled over 365 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.