Flight number record
DL 2982
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Boise
- Route
- MSP → BOI
- Departs
- 11:59
- Flights
- 360
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2982, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2982 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 360 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2982's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 79 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights
Avg delay
51 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.28%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 360 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 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 360 flights, with 11:39 (56 flights) and 11:52 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 11:5956 flights15.6%
- Departs 11:3956 flights15.6%
- Departs 11:5236 flights10.0%
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 11:59 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2982 runs 7 points better at 85.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2982 next to MSP to BOI
Every carrier on MSP to BOI combined arrived on time 80.7% of the time across 774 flights, so DL 2982 is 5 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2982thin sample | 360 | 85.2% | 51 min | 0.28% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–BOI | 774 | 80.7% | 57 min | 0.52% | B+ |
| All carriers on MSP–BOI | 774 | 80.7% | 57 min | 0.52% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 96.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.3%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 72 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 202592 flights87.9%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights75.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.7%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights88.5%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2982 did best on Tuesday at 92.0% on time and worst on Wednesday at 80.0%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2982 runs when it is late
DL 2982 often beats the schedule: 91 of 358 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 53 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early91 flights25.4%
- Within 15 min214 flights59.8%
- 15–29 min late24 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 358 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 38 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. In the other direction, 23 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 BOI.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2982
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 April 2026, 3 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2026 | 3 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 June 2026 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 April 2026 | 2 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 January 2026 | 2 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 December 2025 | 2 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2982 runs late
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 2,716 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,423 of the 2,716 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,716 delay minutes reported on DL 2982.
Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, below the national 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.7% 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 1,142 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.
DL 2982 is not only a MSP to BOI flight. It also flew BOI to MSP (359 flights, 83.2% 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. 360 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOI to MSPthin sample | 359 | 83.2% | 76 min | 0.28% | B+ |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2982
For a booking, DL 2982 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.2% on time and 0.28% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
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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.