Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL1563
Minneapolis (MSP) to Chicago (ORD) · scheduled 8:00 PM – 9:58 PM
How DL1563 performs
626 operations, June 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on MSP → ORD, DL1563 averaged about 5 operations a week (626 in 816 days, cancelled ones included).
DL1563 arrived on time 69.3% of the time, against 75.0% for all MSP → ORD flights, so this departure is 5.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 4.4 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 626 operations, June 2024 – August 2026 · If DL1563 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL1563 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1563 | 69.3% | 1.44% | -4 min | 12.7% | 626 |
| Delta Air Lines on MSP → ORD | 73.7% | 1.27% | -4 min | 10.3% | 5,499 |
| All MSP → ORD flights | 75.0% | 1.62% | -4 min | 9.8% | 18,899 |
DL1563 cancelled 9 of 626 operations (1.44%), close to the 1.62% for MSP → ORD.
12.7% of DL1563’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 9.8% across MSP → ORD, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
Why DL1563 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL1563 on MSP → ORD. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL1563 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, DL1563 pushed back an average of 50 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 4 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into MSP: 560 of 618 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| DL1563 | 25% | 61% | 12% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 69% | 9% |
82 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often DL1563’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often DL1563 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MSP late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ORD?
DL1563 pushes back an average of 21.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at ORD an average of 15.7 minutes late. The 6.0 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 17.7 minutes on the taxiways at MSP, 1.3 minutes shorter than a typical MSP departure in the same hour.
On arrival at ORD, DL1563 spends 14.4 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is 3.5 minutes shorter than a typical ORD arrival (18.0 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 25,601 MSP departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 985,848 arrivals at ORD. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves MSP
DL1563 has one departure time, 8:00 PM, so this is what that hour at MSP is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 25,601 departures from MSP are scheduled in the 8 PM–9 PM hour over the period, against 380,472 across the whole day.
DL1563 is scheduled out of MSP at 8:00 PM, in the 8 PM–9 PM bank. Departures from MSP in that hour arrive on time 78.5% of the time against 81.1% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour DL1563 leaves in is an ordinary one for MSP and explains nothing about its record either way.
Both airport figures cover every destination from MSP, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL1563 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. DL1563 also served these 15 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW→DTW Dallas–Fort Worth to Detroit | May 7, 2026 – June 5, 2026 | 25 | — |
| IAH→LAX Houston to Los Angeles | April 13, 2026 – May 6, 2026 | 21 | — |
| FLL→ATL Fort Lauderdale to Atlanta | March 8, 2026 – April 12, 2026 | 36 | — |
| LAX→MCI Los Angeles to Kansas City | February 12, 2026 – March 6, 2026 | 19 | — |
| ATL→EGE Atlanta to Eagle | December 21, 2024 – January 4, 2026 | 28 | — |
| EGE→ATL Eagle to Atlanta | December 21, 2024 – January 4, 2026 | 28 | — |
| STL→DTW St. Louis to Detroit | November 5, 2023 – June 6, 2024 | 55 | — |
| LGA→MSP New York to Minneapolis | April 9, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 28 | — |
| MSP→FLL Minneapolis to Fort Lauderdale | October 11, 2023 – April 8, 2024 | 68 | — |
| SLC→MCI Salt Lake City to Kansas City | January 8, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 62 | — |
| LGA→MSY New York to New Orleans | November 25, 2023 | 1 | — |
| IAH→ATL Houston to Atlanta | November 24, 2023 | 1 | — |
| PHX→MSP Phoenix to Minneapolis | September 11, 2023 – October 7, 2023 | 16 | — |
| ATL→ORD Atlanta to Chicago | July 10, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 57 | — |
| ORD→ATL Chicago to Atlanta | July 10, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 57 | — |
The figures above describe only MSP → ORD, the route DL1563 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
69 min late
against a median of 4 min early
DL1563 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 4 min early, but the worst tenth are 73 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 626 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1544 | Delta Air Lines | 81.0% | 8 min early | 721 |
| DL1567 | Delta Air Lines | 78.0% | 4 min early | 614 |
| DL1533 | Delta Air Lines | 75.3% | 5 min early | 657 |
| DL1563 this flight | Delta Air Lines | 69.3% | 4 min early | 626 |
| UA658 | United Airlines | 63.4% | 5 min late | 1,085 |
Among all 5 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, DL1563 has the 4th highest on-time rate, 11.7 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 626 records of DL1563 operating MSP → ORD, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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