Flight number record

DL 447

Delta Air Lines · Anchorage to Minneapolis

Route: ANC → MSP
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 252
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 447, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 447 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 2.1 hours. That rests on 252 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 447'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 250 completed flights

Avg delay

126 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.79%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 252 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 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. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00138 flights54.8%
Departs 06:0575 flights29.8%

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 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 5 points worse at 84.8%. 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 447 next to ANC to MSP

Every carrier on ANC to MSP combined arrived on time 83.9% of the time across 781 flights, so DL 447 is about level with it. Delta flew 706 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 447 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 447thin sample	252	84.8%	126 min	0.79%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on ANC–MSP	706	83.2%	113 min	0.57%	B+
All carriers on ANC–MSP	781	83.9%	108 min	0.51%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 447 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 447 held fairly steady: 85.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.8% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 88.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights85.9%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights81.8%
Jan–Mar 202617 flights—
Apr–Jun 202654 flights88.7%

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

By weekday, DL 447 did best on Tuesday at 97.3% on time and worst on Wednesday at 76.5%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 447 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 51% of the 4,800 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
51%
Late-arriving aircraft
35%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
2%

35% 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 4,800 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 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 4,800 delay minutes reported on DL 447.

Cancellations are rare at 0.79%, 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 4.8% 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.

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, read DL 447 as 84.8% on time with 0.79% cancelled over 252 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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