Flight number record
DL 792
Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Minneapolis
- Route
- LAX → MSP
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 792, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 792 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 792's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 152 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 792 flies
DL 792 flies LAX to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 156 of 365 flights, with 06:15 (127 flights) and 06:25 (59 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00156 flights42.7%
- Departs 06:15127 flights34.8%
- Departs 06:2559 flights16.2%
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 792 runs 3 points better at 92.5%. 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 792 next to LAX to MSP
Every carrier on LAX to MSP combined arrived on time 86.2% of the time across 2,109 flights, so DL 792 is 6 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 792 | 365 | 92.5% | 65 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on LAX–MSP | 2,109 | 86.2% | 57 min | 0.95% | A+ |
| All carriers on LAX–MSP | 2,109 | 86.2% | 57 min | 0.95% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 792 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 792 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 92.0% in Jan–Mar 2026, 93.4% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.7% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights93.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights92.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.7%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 792 ranged from 90.2% on Saturday to 96.2% on Thursday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 792 runs when it is late
DL 792 often beats the schedule: 148 of 362 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 27 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early148 flights40.9%
- Within 15 min187 flights51.7%
- 15–29 min late10 flights2.8%
- 30–59 min late7 flights1.9%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 362 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 26 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. Only 6 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 792
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 November 2025, 3 hours 33 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 3 November 2025 | 3 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 May 2026 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 August 2026 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 21 February 2026 | 2 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 March 2026 | 2 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 792 runs late
Carrier accounts for 76% of the 1,743 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 76%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 76%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,323 of the 1,743 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,743 delay minutes reported on DL 792.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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 2.8% 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 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.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 792 in the data flew LAX to MSP. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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 792
For a booking, DL 792 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.5% on time and 0.82% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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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.