Flight number record

DL 941

Delta Air Lines · Seattle to Minneapolis

Route: SEA → MSP
Departs: 12:00
Flights: 265
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 941, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 941 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 55 minutes. That rests on 265 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 941's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 79 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 262 completed flights

Avg delay

54 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.75%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 265 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 941 flies

DL 941 flies SEA to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:00, used on 93 of 265 flights, with 11:50 (78 flights) and 12:05 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:0093 flights35.1%
Departs 11:5078 flights29.4%
Departs 12:0546 flights17.4%

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 12:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 941 runs 7 points better at 85.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 941 next to SEA to MSP

Every carrier on SEA to MSP combined arrived on time 85.5% of the time across 2,689 flights, so DL 941 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,736 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 88.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

DL 941 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 941thin sample	265	85.5%	54 min	0.75%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on SEA–MSP	1,736	88.5%	66 min	0.81%	A+
All carriers on SEA–MSP	2,689	85.5%	55 min	0.89%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 941 quarter by quarter

DL 941 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 77.8%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 88 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 202572 flights77.8%
Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.0%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 941 did best on Monday at 92.1% on time and worst on Saturday at 75.7%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 941 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 44% of the 2,058 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
44%
Late-arriving aircraft
43%
National Airspace System
14%

43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 2,058 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 43 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 2,058 delay minutes reported on DL 941.

Cancellations are rare at 0.75%, 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 3.4% 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.

The 1,399 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including ATL to LAS (99), but none flew often enough under DL 941 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SEA to MSP only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 265 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 941

For a booking, DL 941 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.5% on time and 0.75% 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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