Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL574
Minneapolis (MSP) to Sacramento (SMF) · scheduled 6:45 PM – 8:35 PM
How DL574 performs
608 operations, October 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on MSP → SMF, DL574 averaged about 6 operations a week (608 in 689 days, cancelled ones included).
DL574 arrived on time 78.4% of the time, against 82.8% for all MSP → SMF flights, so this departure is 4.4 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 · 608 operations, October 2024 – August 2026 · If DL574 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL574 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL574 | 78.4% | 0.16% | -4 min | 6.4% | 608 |
| Delta Air Lines on MSP → SMF | 82.8% | 0.38% | -7 min | 4.6% | 1,819 |
| All MSP → SMF flights | 82.8% | 0.38% | -7 min | 4.6% | 1,819 |
DL574 cancelled 1 of 608 operations (0.16%), close to the 0.38% for MSP → SMF.
6.4% of DL574’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 4.6% across MSP → SMF, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – August 2026
Why DL574 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 DL574 on MSP → SMF. 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 DL574 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying DL574 came in 15 or more minutes late on 13% 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: 567 of 607 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 |
|---|---|
| DL574 | 13% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
71 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 DL574’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.
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 SMF?
DL574 pushes back an average of 10.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at SMF an average of 5.5 minutes late. The 5.0 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. Its 18.2 minutes on the taxiways at MSP is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at SMF, DL574 spends 6.2 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 1.0 minutes longer than a typical SMF arrival (5.1 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 34,925 MSP departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 177,301 arrivals at SMF. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves MSP
DL574 has one departure time, 6:45 PM, so this is what that hour at MSP is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 34,925 departures from MSP are scheduled in the 6 PM–7 PM hour over the period, against 380,472 across the whole day.
DL574 is scheduled out of MSP at 6:45 PM, in the 6 PM–7 PM bank. Departures from MSP in that hour arrive on time 75.0% of the time against 81.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 6.1 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
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 DL574 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. DL574 also served these 20 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATL→TUS Atlanta to Tucson | December 20, 2025 – January 4, 2026 | 12 | — |
| TUS→ATL Tucson to Atlanta | December 20, 2025 – January 4, 2026 | 12 | — |
| ATL→GEG Atlanta to Spokane | June 7, 2024 – December 2, 2024 | 91 | 70.8% |
| GEG→ATL Spokane to Atlanta | June 7, 2024 – December 2, 2024 | 75 | — |
| MSP→BIL Minneapolis to Billings | July 13, 2024 – September 7, 2024 | 10 | — |
| LAX→BOS Los Angeles to Boston | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| LAX→ATL Los Angeles to Atlanta | April 9, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 28 | — |
| DTW→SRQ Detroit to Sarasota/Bradenton | December 16, 2023 – April 8, 2024 | 53 | — |
| SRQ→DTW Sarasota/Bradenton to Detroit | December 16, 2023 – April 8, 2024 | 53 | — |
| LAX→MIA Los Angeles to Miami | January 8, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 40 | — |
| JFK→SAN New York to San Diego | January 18, 2024 – March 8, 2024 | 16 | — |
| ATL→DAB Atlanta to Daytona Beach | February 19, 2024 | 1 | — |
| DAB→ATL Daytona Beach to Atlanta | February 19, 2024 | 1 | — |
| LAX→AUS Los Angeles to Austin | November 5, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 38 | — |
| AUS→LAX Austin to Los Angeles | November 5, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 35 | — |
| GNV→ATL Gainesville to Atlanta | November 4, 2023 | 1 | — |
| DEN→LGA Denver to New York | September 18, 2023 – November 3, 2023 | 35 | — |
| LGA→DEN New York to Denver | September 18, 2023 – October 6, 2023 | 12 | — |
| SFO→ATL San Francisco to Atlanta | July 2, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 54 | — |
| ATL→SFO Atlanta to San Francisco | July 1, 2023 – August 6, 2023 | 37 | — |
The figures above describe only MSP → SMF, the route DL574 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
37 min late
against a median of 4 min early
Percentiles over 608 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – August 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 608 records of DL574 operating MSP → SMF, 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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