Flight number record

DL 2982

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Boise

Route: MSP → BOI
Departs: 11:59
Flights: 325
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2982, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2982 earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 325 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2982's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 323 completed flights

Avg delay

52 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.31%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 325 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When DL 2982 flies

DL 2982 flies MSP to BOI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:59, used on 56 of 325 flights, with 11:52 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:5956 flights17.2%
Departs 11:5236 flights11.1%

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 11:59 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2982 runs 6 points better at 84.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2982 next to MSP to BOI

Every carrier on MSP to BOI combined arrived on time 78.8% of the time across 786 flights, so DL 2982 is 6 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 2982 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2982thin sample	325	84.8%	52 min	0.31%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–BOI	786	78.8%	57 min	0.64%	B+
All carriers on MSP–BOI	786	78.8%	57 min	0.64%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2982 quarter by quarter

DL 2982 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 92.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.3%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 81 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 202556 flights92.9%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.9%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights75.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.7%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2982 did best on Tuesday at 93.3% on time and worst on Monday at 80.4%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2982 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 52% of the 2,531 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
52%
National Airspace System
25%
Late-arriving aircraft
20%
Extreme weather
4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, 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 1,304 of the 2,531 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,531 delay minutes reported on DL 2982.

Cancellations are rare at 0.31%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,142 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 2982 is not only a MSP to BOI flight. It also flew BOI to MSP (324 flights, 84.5% 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. 325 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2982
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
BOI to MSPthin sample	324	84.5%	84 min	0.31%	B+

What to do with this

Booking DL 2982

For a booking, read DL 2982 as 84.8% on time with 0.31% cancelled over 325 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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