Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL312
Minneapolis (MSP) to Honolulu (HNL) · scheduled 10:00 AM – 3:06 PM
How DL312 performs
691 operations, September 2024 – July 2026.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 691 operations, September 2024 – July 2026 · If DL312 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL312 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL312 | 83.4% | 0.87% | -7 min | 6.2% | 691 |
| Delta Air Lines on MSP → HNL | 83.4% | 0.71% | -8 min | 6.7% | 1,125 |
| All MSP → HNL flights | 83.4% | 0.71% | -8 min | 6.7% | 1,125 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2024 – July 2026
Why DL312 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL312 on MSP → HNL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL312 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying DL312 came in 15 or more minutes late on 14% 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.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into MSP just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 622 of 686 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| DL312 | 14% |
| Network, same turn | 33% |
The schedule leaves a long gap on the ground, which gives a late aircraft room to catch up before this flight pushes back.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 3 to 6 hours. How often DL312’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MSP late, does that still matter by the time it reaches HNL?
DL312 pushes back an average of 9.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at HNL an average of 1.6 minutes late. The 8.1 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 19.6 minutes on the taxiways at MSP, 2.0 minutes longer than a typical MSP departure in the same hour.
On arrival at HNL, DL312 spends 7.4 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 about what any arrival at HNL spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached HNL. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 32,862 departures from MSP scheduled in the clock hour DL312 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at HNL (186,355 flights), not just DL312’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves MSP
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. DL312 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 32,862 departures from MSP are scheduled in the 10 AM–11 AM hour over the period, against 369,781 across the whole day.
DL312 is scheduled out of MSP at 10:00 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from MSP in that hour arrive on time 84.1% of the time against 81.1% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour DL312 leaves in is an ordinary one for MSP and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from MSP to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL312 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAT→DTW San Antonio to Detroit | July 8, 2024 – September 8, 2024 | 51 | — |
| DEN→ATL Denver to Atlanta | June 7, 2024 – July 7, 2024 | 31 | — |
| LAX→JFK Los Angeles to New York | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| LGA→DEN New York to Denver | April 9, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 24 | — |
| ATL→HSV Atlanta to Huntsville | April 13, 2024 – May 4, 2024 | 4 | — |
| HSV→ATL Huntsville to Atlanta | April 13, 2024 – May 4, 2024 | 4 | — |
| SEA→ATL Seattle to Atlanta | March 10, 2024 – April 8, 2024 | 30 | — |
| HNL→JFK Honolulu to New York | December 7, 2023 – March 8, 2024 | 93 | 92.1% |
| JFK→HNL New York to Honolulu | July 1, 2023 – December 7, 2023 | 81 | — |
| ATL→LAS Atlanta to Las Vegas | September 11, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 52 | — |
| ATL→SAT Atlanta to San Antonio | November 1, 2023 | 1 | — |
| SAT→ATL San Antonio to Atlanta | November 1, 2023 | 1 | — |
| LAS→ATL Las Vegas to Atlanta | September 11, 2023 – October 8, 2023 | 28 | — |
| ATL→LAX Atlanta to Los Angeles | July 4–5, 2023 | 2 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL312 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
32 min late
against a median of 7 min early
Percentiles over 691 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2024 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 691 records of DL312 operating MSP → HNL, 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 excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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