Flight number record

DL 941

Delta Air Lines · Seattle to Minneapolis

Route: SEA → MSP
Departs: 12:00
Flights: 265
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

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

DL 941 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 about an hour. That rests on 265 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 941's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 116 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 262 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.75%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

3.1%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 265 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 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 12:05 (77 flights) and 11:50 (37 flights) next.

Departs 12:0093 flights35.1%
Departs 12:0577 flights29.1%
Departs 11:5037 flights14.0%

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 12:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 941 runs 11 points better at 88.9%. 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 941 next to SEA to MSP

Every carrier on SEA to MSP combined arrived on time 87.2% of the time across 2,676 flights, so DL 941 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,745 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 89.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

DL 941 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 941thin sample	265	88.9%	58 min	0.75%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on SEA–MSP	1,745	89.0%	78 min	0.74%	A+
All carriers on SEA–MSP	2,676	87.2%	64 min	0.78%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 941 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 941 held fairly steady: 87.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 90.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 90.3% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202510 flights—
Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.0%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.3%

Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 941 ranged from 84.2% on Wednesday to 92.1% on Tuesday. With about 38 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 941 runs when it is late

DL 941 often beats the schedule: 81 of 262 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 29 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.

15+ min early81 flights30.9%
Within 15 min152 flights58.0%
15–29 min late11 flights4.2%
30–59 min late10 flights3.8%
1–2 hours late2 flights0.8%
2+ hours late6 flights2.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 262 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 51 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 28 still arrived on time. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 941

The latest arrival of the period was on 23 January 2026, 3 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across January, August, May, June and December, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of DL 941 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
23 January 2026	3 hours 27 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
6 August 2026	2 hours 55 minutes	National Airspace System
16 May 2026	2 hours 1 minute	Carrier
19 June 2026	2 hours 1 minute	Carrier
31 December 2025	2 hours	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why DL 941 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 1,679 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
41%
Late-arriving aircraft
36%
National Airspace System
23%
Extreme weather
0%

36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,679 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 36 to one. The split is drawn from 1,679 delay minutes reported on DL 941.

Cancellations are rare at 0.75%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.

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: 88.9% 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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