Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL2703
Minneapolis (MSP) to Philadelphia (PHL) · scheduled 8:20 PM – 11:56 PM
How DL2703 performs
625 operations, October 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on MSP → PHL, DL2703 averaged about 6 operations a week (625 in 699 days, cancelled ones included).
DL2703 arrived on time 76.4% of the time, against 80.2% for all MSP → PHL flights, so this departure is 3.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 6.0 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 625 operations, October 2024 – August 2026 · If DL2703 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL2703 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2703 | 76.4% | 1.12% | -7 min | 7.4% | 625 |
| Delta Air Lines on MSP → PHL | 82.4% | 1.42% | -9 min | 6.1% | 3,798 |
| All MSP → PHL flights | 80.2% | 2.12% | -9 min | 7.8% | 6,076 |
DL2703 has cancelled 1.12% of its scheduled departures (7 of 625), against 2.12% for all MSP → PHL flights — this specific departure cancels 1.0 percentage points less often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about DL2703 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – August 2026
Why DL2703 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 DL2703 on MSP → PHL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL2703 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying DL2703 came in 15 or more minutes late on 19% 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 MSP: 517 of 619 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 |
|---|---|
| DL2703 | 19% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
76 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 DL2703’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 October 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MSP late, does that still matter by the time it reaches PHL?
DL2703 pushes back an average of 14.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at PHL an average of 8.4 minutes late. The 5.7 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 17.8 minutes on the taxiways at MSP, 1.3 minutes shorter than a typical MSP departure in the same hour.
On arrival at PHL, DL2703 spends 6.6 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 1.6 minutes shorter than a typical PHL arrival (8.2 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 315,181 arrivals at PHL. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves MSP
DL2703 has one departure time, 8:20 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.
DL2703 is scheduled out of MSP at 8:20 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 DL2703 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 · October 2024 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL2703 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. DL2703 also served these 15 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCO→LGA Orlando to New York | July 8, 2024 – September 8, 2024 | 63 | — |
| MSY→BOS New Orleans to Boston | June 7, 2024 – July 7, 2024 | 31 | — |
| MSY→LGA New Orleans to New York | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| ATL→CHA Atlanta to Chattanooga | March 10, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 58 | — |
| ATL→PIT Atlanta to Pittsburgh | February 15, 2024 – March 8, 2024 | 13 | — |
| PIT→ATL Pittsburgh to Atlanta | February 15, 2024 – March 8, 2024 | 13 | — |
| LAS→BOS Las Vegas to Boston | December 17, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 9 | — |
| ATL→MSY Atlanta to New Orleans | January 1–3, 2024 | 2 | — |
| MSY→ATL New Orleans to Atlanta | January 1–3, 2024 | 2 | — |
| ORD→BOS Chicago to Boston | September 5, 2023 – December 14, 2023 | 55 | — |
| BUF→DTW Buffalo to Detroit | December 11, 2023 | 1 | — |
| DTW→BUF Detroit to Buffalo | December 11, 2023 | 1 | — |
| SEA→PSP Seattle to Palm Springs | November 24, 2023 | 1 | — |
| RDU→ATL Raleigh–Durham to Atlanta | July 10, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 57 | — |
| SEA→LAS Seattle to Las Vegas | July 2–9, 2023 | 6 | — |
The figures above describe only MSP → PHL, the route DL2703 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
46 min late
against a median of 7 min early
Percentiles over 625 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2688 | Delta Air Lines | 91.2% | 13 min early | 669 |
| DL2703 this flight | Delta Air Lines | 76.4% | 7 min early | 625 |
| DL2594 | Delta Air Lines | 74.2% | 4 min early | 727 |
Among all 3 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, DL2703 has the 2nd highest on-time rate, 14.8 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 625 records of DL2703 operating MSP → PHL, 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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