Flight number record

DL 2983

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Washington

Route: MSP → DCA
Departs: 10:36
Flights: 351
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2983, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2983 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 about 50 minutes. That rests on 351 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2983's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 73 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.42%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 351 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2983 flies

DL 2983 flies MSP to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:36, used on 73 of 351 flights, with 10:05 (69 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 10:3673 flights20.8%
Departs 10:0569 flights19.7%

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 10:36 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2983 runs level with that at 84.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 2983 next to MSP to DCA

Every carrier on MSP to DCA combined arrived on time 74.3% of the time across 2,574 flights, so DL 2983 is 11 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,695 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 2983 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2983thin sample	351	84.9%	49 min	1.42%	B
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–DCA	1,695	75.6%	60 min	2.12%	B
All carriers on MSP–DCA	2,574	74.3%	81 min	3.22%	C−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2983 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2983 held fairly steady: 83.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 81.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights83.1%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights84.3%
Jan–Mar 202683 flights81.2%
Apr–Jun 202687 flights90.8%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2983 did best on Tuesday at 92.5% on time and worst on Thursday at 80.4%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2983 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 54% of the 2,548 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
54%
National Airspace System
35%
Late-arriving aircraft
12%

The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, 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 1,370 of the 2,548 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,548 delay minutes reported on DL 2983.

Cancellations sit at 1.42% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 931 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.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including DCA to MSP (190), but none flew often enough under DL 2983 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to DCA only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 351 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 2983

For a booking, read DL 2983 as 84.9% on time with 1.42% cancelled over 351 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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