Carrier route record
DLAUS→MSP
Delta Air Lines · Austin to Minneapolis
- Flights
- 1,022
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 61%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Delta Air Lines.
Delta on AUS to MSP lands a B, 2 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 an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,022 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Delta on AUS to MSP from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,006 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.27%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.0%
Every carrier on AUS to MSP, 1,684 flights
These figures cover 1,022 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Delta against every carrier on AUS to MSP
Delta flew 1,022 of the 1,684 flights on AUS to MSP, most of the route. Its 79.6% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.3% to Southwest at 66.1%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 323 | 85.3% | 109 min | 0.31% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines (this page) | 1,022 | 79.6% | 89 min | 1.27% | B |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 339 | 66.1% | 44 min | 0.00% | C+ |
Flight by flight
Delta flight numbers on AUS to MSP
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Departure window
When Delta runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am365 flights90.4%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm78 flights76.6%
- 2pm–5pm291 flights76.5%
- 5pm–8pm288 flights70.3%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.4% of the time, against 70.3% for the evening window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Delta on AUS to MSP through the year
September is the best month on the calendar at 89.3% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. January was the busiest month here, with 90 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 82.9% on time and Thursday the weakest at 75.8%, a spread of 7 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Delta on AUS to MSP runs when it is late
Delta on AUS to MSP often beats the schedule: 316 of 1,006 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 205 late arrivals split 69 under half an hour, 55 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 81 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early316 flights31.4%
- Within 15 min485 flights48.2%
- 15–29 min late69 flights6.9%
- 30–59 min late55 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late39 flights3.9%
- 2+ hours late42 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,006 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
34 of 203 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 36 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Delta on AUS to MSP
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 May 2026, 17 hours 41 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2026 | 17 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 January 2026 | 16 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 November 2025 | 13 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 9 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 February 2026 | 8 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Delta runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 50% of the 18,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Carrier
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 17 to one. The split is drawn from 18,244 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 9,078 of the 18,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.27% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.1% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,042 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 return leg runs 78.7% on time across 1,023 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,022 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 Delta on AUS to MSP
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,022 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 79.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 1,006 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- AUS to MSP, every carrier
- Delta on MSP to AUS, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on AUS to MSP85.3%
- Southwest Airlines on AUS to MSP66.1%
- Delta Air Lines network-wide record
- Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) delay statistics
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.