Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL2191
San Diego (SAN) to Minneapolis (MSP) · scheduled 4:35 PM – 10:15 PM
How DL2191 performs
606 operations, June 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on SAN → MSP, DL2191 averaged about 5 operations a week (606 in 816 days, cancelled ones included).
DL2191 arrived on time 83.5% of the time, against 86.7% for all SAN → MSP flights, so this departure is 3.2 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 3.2 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 606 operations, June 2024 – August 2026 · If DL2191 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL2191 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2191 | 83.5% | 0.66% | -9 min | 5.2% | 606 |
| Delta Air Lines on SAN → MSP | 86.7% | 0.53% | -8 min | 3.8% | 4,186 |
| All SAN → MSP flights | 86.7% | 0.53% | -8 min | 3.8% | 4,186 |
DL2191 cancelled 4 of 606 operations (0.66%), close to the 0.53% for SAN → MSP.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
Why DL2191 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
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 DL2191 on SAN → MSP. 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 DL2191 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying DL2191 came in 15 or more minutes late on 20% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into SAN: 596 of 602 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 |
|---|---|
| DL2191 | 20% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
70 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 DL2191’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves SAN late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MSP?
DL2191 pushes back an average of 6.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at MSP an average of 0.2 minutes early. The 6.5 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so on average a late pushback on this flight is made up before the gate. It spends 19.6 minutes on the taxiways at SAN, 1.0 minutes longer than a typical SAN departure in the same hour.
On arrival at MSP, DL2191 spends 8.1 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 1.3 minutes longer than a typical MSP arrival (6.8 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 15,623 SAN departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 380,510 arrivals at MSP. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves SAN
DL2191 has one departure time, 4:35 PM, so this is what that hour at SAN is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 15,623 departures from SAN are scheduled in the 4 PM–5 PM hour over the period, against 307,047 across the whole day.
DL2191 is scheduled out of SAN at 4:35 PM, in the 4 PM–5 PM bank. Departures from SAN in that hour arrive on time 71.6% of the time against 77.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 6.0 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from SAN, 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 DL2191 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. DL2191 also served these 10 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DTW→MSN Detroit to Madison | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| LAX→SEA Los Angeles to Seattle | April 9, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 28 | — |
| SLC→LAS Salt Lake City to Las Vegas | March 10, 2024 – April 8, 2024 | 30 | — |
| SEA→ORD Seattle to Chicago | January 8, 2024 – March 8, 2024 | 50 | — |
| ATL→MDW Atlanta to Chicago | January 1–7, 2024 | 7 | — |
| MDW→ATL Chicago to Atlanta | January 1–7, 2024 | 7 | — |
| ATL→ORF Atlanta to Norfolk | July 1, 2023 – December 14, 2023 | 159 | 79.7% |
| MSP→PIT Minneapolis to Pittsburgh | October 28–31, 2023 | 4 | — |
| PIT→MSP Pittsburgh to Minneapolis | October 28–31, 2023 | 4 | — |
| ORF→ATL Norfolk to Atlanta | July 9, 2023 – October 8, 2023 | 40 | — |
The figures above describe only SAN → MSP, the route DL2191 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
31 min late
against a median of 9 min early
Percentiles over 606 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2134 | Delta Air Lines | 93.9% | 8 min early | 816 |
| DL2191 this flight | Delta Air Lines | 83.5% | 9 min early | 606 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, DL2191 has the lowest on-time rate, 10.4 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 606 records of DL2191 operating SAN → MSP, 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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