Flight number record
DL 914
Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Minneapolis
- Route
- LAX → MSP
- Departs
- 12:40
- Flights
- 360
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 914, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 914 lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 360 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.39%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 360 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 (63 flights) and 12:35 (54 flights) next.
- Departs 12:4092 flights25.6%
- Departs 13:2563 flights17.5%
- Departs 12:3554 flights15.0%
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 12:40 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 914 runs 2 points better at 80.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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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 2,109 flights, so DL 914 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 914thin sample | 360 | 80.3% | 58 min | 1.39% | B |
| 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 914 quarter by quarter
DL 914 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 86.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 72.1%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 72 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights83.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights84.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights72.1%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
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.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 914 runs when it is late
DL 914 often beats the schedule: 113 of 355 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 70 late arrivals split 30 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early113 flights31.8%
- Within 15 min172 flights48.5%
- 15–29 min late30 flights8.5%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights4.2%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 355 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 65 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 914
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 November 2025, 4 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 November 2025 | 4 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 June 2026 | 4 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 29 August 2026 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 August 2026 | 2 hours 42 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 5 June 2026 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 914 runs late
Carrier accounts for 42% of the 4,060 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Carrier
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,060 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 36 to one. The split is drawn from 4,060 delay minutes reported on DL 914.
Cancellations sit at 1.39% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.8% 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 about 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 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, DL 914 is one of the weaker ways to fly LAX to MSP: 6 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
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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.