Flight Reliability
DL 1098 · Delta Air Lines
Boston → Minneapolis (BOS–MSP)
73
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
- 71%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 12 min
- Average arrival delay
- 1.1%
- Cancelled
- 4 min early
- Median arrival delay
Based on 360 historical flights. Data through May 2026.
What the data says
Sunday scaries are real for this one.
DL 1098 arrived on time 79% of the time on Fridays and just 63% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.
Lagging the BOS–MSP route.
DL 1098 arrived on time 71% of the time, versus 84% across the BOS–MSP route.
Lagging the Delta Air Lines network.
DL 1098 arrived on time 71% of the time, versus 81% across the Delta Air Lines network.
Trending in the right direction.
DL 1098 arrived on time 82% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 74% in the three months before that.
The breakdown
- Mon68%(50 flights)
- Tue69%(52 flights)
- Wed78%(50 flights)
- Thu63%(49 flights)
- Fri79%(52 flights)
- Sat78%(51 flights)
- Sun63%(51 flights)
90%
May
Jun 57% → May 90% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 57% | 30 |
| July 2025 | 45% | 31 |
| August 2025 | 87% | 31 |
| September 2025 | 60% | 30 |
| October 2025 | 61% | 31 |
| November 2025 | 79% | 29 |
| December 2025 | 57% | 28 |
| January 2026 | 83% | 29 |
| February 2026 | 82% | 27 |
| March 2026 | 83% | 29 |
| April 2026 | 73% | 30 |
| May 2026 | 90% | 30 |
- Departures on time
- 70%
- Diverted
- 0.3%
- Flights flown
- 355
- Months covered
- 12
Same route, other flights
Keep nerding
Based on 360 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.