Flight number record

DL 914

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Minneapolis

Route: LAX → MSP
Departs: 12:40
Flights: 360
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 914, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 914 lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 360 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

81.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.11%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 360 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 914 flies

DL 914 flies LAX to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:40, used on 92 of 360 flights, with 13:25 (83 flights) and 13:26 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:4092 flights25.6%
Departs 13:2583 flights23.1%
Departs 13:2641 flights11.4%

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 12:40 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 914 runs 3 points better at 81.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 914 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 914 is 5 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 914 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 914thin sample	360	81.4%	53 min	1.11%	B
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 914 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 914 held fairly steady: 81.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 76.7% in Apr–Jun 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 202592 flights81.3%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights83.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights84.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.7%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 914 did best on Tuesday at 90.4% on time and worst on Friday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 914 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 49% of the 3,517 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
49%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 49%, 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 1,712 of the 3,517 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,517 delay minutes reported on DL 914.

Cancellations sit at 1.11% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 55 minutes, 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 two other city pairs in the data, including ATL to CHS (1) and CHS to ATL (1), but none flew often enough under DL 914 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. 360 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 914

For a booking, read DL 914 as 81.4% on time with 1.11% cancelled over 360 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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