Flight number record
DL 447
Delta Air Lines · Anchorage to Minneapolis
- Route
- ANC → MSP
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 252
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 447, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 447 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 close to two hours. That rests on 252 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 447's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 250 completed flights
Avg delay
122 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.79%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 252 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 447 flies
DL 447 flies ANC to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 138 of 252 flights, with 06:05 (75 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00138 flights54.8%
- Departs 06:0575 flights29.8%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 447 runs 4 points worse at 85.6%. 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 447 next to ANC to MSP
Every carrier on ANC to MSP combined arrived on time 82.8% of the time across 777 flights, so DL 447 is 3 points ahead of it. Delta flew 706 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 447thin sample | 252 | 85.6% | 122 min | 0.79% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on ANC–MSP | 706 | 81.4% | 122 min | 1.13% | B |
| All carriers on ANC–MSP | 777 | 82.8% | 120 min | 1.03% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 447 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 447 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.7% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 90.3% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights81.8%
- Jan–Mar 202617 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202654 flights88.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.3%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 447 did best on Tuesday at 97.2% on time and worst on Wednesday at 79.4%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 447 runs when it is late
DL 447 often beats the schedule: 76 of 250 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 36 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early76 flights30.4%
- Within 15 min138 flights55.2%
- 15–29 min late16 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late10 flights4.0%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late8 flights3.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 250 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 29 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. In the other direction, 15 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 MSP.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 447
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 January 2026, 17 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 January 2026 | 17 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 October 2025 | 7 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 December 2025 | 7 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 May 2026 | 7 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 June 2026 | 7 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 447 runs late
Carrier accounts for 50% of the 4,403 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Carrier
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,403 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 to one. The split is drawn from 4,403 delay minutes reported on DL 447.
Cancellations are rare at 0.79%, 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 4.0% 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.
At 2,519 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 DEN to LGA (36), ONT to ATL (24) and ATL to AGS (4), but none flew often enough under DL 447 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ANC to MSP only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 252 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 447
For a booking, DL 447 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.6% on time and 0.79% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- ANC to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to ANC, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 377 on the same route81.5%
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.