Direct flights from London (LHR) to Minneapolis (MSP): 7 nonstop departures observed each week across 1 airline. No cancellations were recorded across the 7 tracked flights. The nonstop covers 6,443 km, an estimated 8 hours 46 minutes in the air. Measured by Pro Flight Search from live flight boards at London and Minneapolis. Updated 4 November 2026 at 12:53 UTC.
Left LHR at 10:34, 44 min after its 09:50 slot.
Landing estimate from 40,368 tracked flights of 8 hours or longer that left 30 to 59 min late. The MSP board has not posted a landing time yet. How planes make up time
Track DL9 →Checked LHR board 12:24 · MSP board 06:53
route health from live LHR and MSP delay boards
0 of 7 tracked legs cancelled in the sample. Will a delayed flight be cancelled? →
Each mark is a scheduled departure at its origin-local time, observed operating in the last 7 days. Today is highlighted.
Flights DL9 09:50 daily
Actual board outcomes rather than schedules, paired departure and arrival per flight and day.
Conditions are tightest at LHR and MSP: a 27% chance of a 15+ minute delay. In this weather, the more delayed of the two airports is typically about +-4 min. Both figures come from the two airports' delay records in similar weather. See live delays → · Weather risk by airport →
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Pro Flight Search records official board updates for nonstop LHR to MSP flights through the day: schedules, estimates, gate pushes and actual departures. The verdict above comes from operated flights, so it reflects what this route does rather than what the timetable promises.
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Pro Flight Search: London (LHR) to Minneapolis (MSP) route reliability, measured from operated flights on official airport boards.
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Smooth skies ahead. The departure side at LHR is the weaker end, route health score 82/100. The airports section above carries the live status and delay window at both ends.
Great-circle distance is 6,443 km. With typical jet cruise speed plus taxi, climb and descent, expect roughly 485–582 min gate-to-gate on this route.
Delta Air Lines runs the route with about 7 flights a week (daily). Since one carrier owns the route, a single disruption tends to ripple through the day.
A blend of departure-side delay at LHR and arrival-side delay at MSP, computed from rolling delay windows (refreshed every 40 minutes) with a daily-rollup fallback. Current MVFR, IFR, or LIFR endpoint weather caps the score when flight rules can limit throughput. Higher is healthier: 100 means operations are clean at both ends.
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