Flight number record
DL 2969
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to New York
- Route
- MSP → JFK
- Departs
- 06:55
- Flights
- 266
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2969, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2969 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 266 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2969's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 101 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 261 completed flights
Avg delay
59 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.13%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 266 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2969 flies
DL 2969 flies MSP to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:55, used on 202 of 266 flights, with 07:10 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 06:55202 flights75.9%
- Departs 07:1031 flights11.7%
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 06:55 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2969 runs level with that at 87.4%. 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 2969 next to MSP to JFK
Every carrier on MSP to JFK combined arrived on time 82.2% of the time across 688 flights, so DL 2969 is 5 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2969thin sample | 266 | 87.4% | 59 min | 1.13% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–JFK | 688 | 82.2% | 79 min | 1.89% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–JFK | 688 | 82.2% | 79 min | 1.89% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2969 quarter by quarter
DL 2969 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 79.8%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 67 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights79.8%
- Jan–Mar 20264 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights91.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.1%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2969 did best on Friday at 97.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 73.7%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2969 runs when it is late
DL 2969 often beats the schedule: 91 of 261 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 33 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early91 flights34.9%
- Within 15 min137 flights52.5%
- 15–29 min late14 flights5.4%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.7%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 261 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
3 of 25 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2969
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 November 2025, 4 hours behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2025 | 4 hours | Carrier |
| 27 December 2025 | 3 hours 20 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 June 2026 | 2 hours 3 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 May 2026 | 1 hour 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 October 2025 | 1 hour 46 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2969 runs late
Carrier accounts for 67% of the 1,959 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 67%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 67%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,308 of the 1,959 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,959 delay minutes reported on DL 2969.
Cancellations sit at 1.13% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.75%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% 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 1,029 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including BTR to ATL (62), but none flew often enough under DL 2969 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to JFK only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 266 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 2969
For a booking, DL 2969 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.4% on time and 1.13% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.