Flight number record

DL 799

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Minneapolis

Route: LAX → MSP
Departs: 08:00
Flights: 340
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 799, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 799 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 340 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 799's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 124 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

90.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights

Avg delay

78 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.29%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 340 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 799 flies

DL 799 flies LAX to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 126 of 340 flights, with 08:30 (39 flights) and 08:25 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:00126 flights37.1%
Departs 08:3039 flights11.5%
Departs 08:2538 flights11.2%

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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 799 runs 6 points better at 90.0%. 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 799 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 799 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

DL 799 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 799thin sample	340	90.0%	78 min	0.29%	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 799 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 799 held fairly steady: 91.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 87.9% 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 flights91.3%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights93.8%
Jan–Mar 202677 flights86.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 799 did best on Tuesday at 100.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 83.3%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 799 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 83% of the 2,643 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
83%
Late-arriving aircraft
14%
National Airspace System
3%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 83%, 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 2,185 of the 2,643 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,643 delay minutes reported on DL 799.

Cancellations are rare at 0.29%, 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 4.7% 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 one other city pair in the data, including ATL to BTR (16), but none flew often enough under DL 799 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. 340 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 799

For a booking, DL 799 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.0% on time and 0.29% 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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