Flight number record

DL 430

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Minneapolis

Route: LAX → MSP
Departs: 23:55
Flights: 303
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 430, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 430 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 50 minutes. That rests on 303 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 430's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 88 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 301 completed flights

Avg delay

51 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.66%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 303 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 430 flies

DL 430 flies LAX to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 23:55, used on 109 of 303 flights, with 23:59 (91 flights) and 23:40 (45 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 23:55109 flights36.0%
Departs 23:5991 flights30.0%
Departs 23:4045 flights14.9%

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 23:55 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 430 runs 16 points better at 86.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 430 next to LAX to MSP

Every carrier on LAX to MSP combined arrived on time 86.2% of the time across 2,156 flights, so DL 430 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 5 points.

DL 430 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 430thin sample	303	86.4%	51 min	0.66%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on LAX–MSP	2,156	86.2%	57 min	0.79%	A+
All carriers on LAX–MSP	2,156	86.2%	57 min	0.79%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 430 quarter by quarter

DL 430 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.5%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 76 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 202592 flights83.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights89.0%
Jan–Mar 202652 flights76.5%
Apr–Jun 202667 flights94.0%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 430 did best on Saturday at 97.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 78.6%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 430 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 45% of the 2,087 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
45%
Late-arriving aircraft
45%
National Airspace System
10%

45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 2,087 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 45 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 2,087 delay minutes reported on DL 430.

Cancellations are rare at 0.66%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.7% 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.

At 1,535 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including MCO to DTW (34), DTW to MCO (24) and LAS to BOS (24), but none flew often enough under DL 430 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to MSP only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 303 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 430

For a booking, DL 430 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.4% on time and 0.66% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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