Flight number record
DL 799
Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Minneapolis
- Route
- LAX → MSP
- Departs
- 08:00
- Flights
- 340
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. 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 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 124 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.29%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 340 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 69 of 340 flights, with 08:30 (39 flights) and 08:25 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 08:0069 flights20.3%
- Departs 08:3039 flights11.5%
- Departs 08:2538 flights11.2%
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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 799 runs 6 points better at 89.7%. 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 799 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 799 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 799thin sample | 340 | 89.7% | 76 min | 0.29% | 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 799 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 799 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.8% in Jan–Mar 2026, 87.9% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 87.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 10 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 202580 flights93.8%
- Jan–Mar 202677 flights86.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights87.1%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 799 did best on Tuesday at 100.0% on time and worst on Thursday at 84.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 799 runs when it is late
DL 799 often beats the schedule: 142 of 339 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 35 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early142 flights41.9%
- Within 15 min162 flights47.8%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.1%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.2%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.5%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 339 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 43 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 799
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 September 2025, 5 hours 59 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2025 | 5 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 4 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 February 2026 | 3 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 February 2026 | 2 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 March 2026 | 2 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 799 runs late
Carrier accounts for 84% of the 2,666 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 84%Carrier
- 11%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 84%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,234 of the 2,666 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,666 delay minutes reported on DL 799.
Cancellations are rare at 0.29%, 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
5.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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: 89.7% on time and 0.29% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
- LAX to MSP, every carrier and departure
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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.