Flight number record
DL 1560
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Tampa
- Route
- ATL → TPA
- Departs
- 22:59
- Flights
- 255
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1560, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1560 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 255 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 1560 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 58 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 249 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.35%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 255 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 1560 flies
DL 1560 is scheduled to leave Atlanta (ATL) at 22:59 local time and reach Tampa (TPA) at 00:25. That slot held for 204 of the 255 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 22:59204 flights80.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 22:59 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 1560 runs level with that at 71.5%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 1560 next to ATL to TPA
Every carrier on ATL to TPA combined arrived on time 73.0% of the time across 6,204 flights, so DL 1560 is 2 points behind it. Delta flew 4,452 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1560thin sample | 255 | 71.5% | 62 min | 2.35% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–TPA | 4,452 | 74.3% | 59 min | 1.33% | C |
| All carriers on ATL–TPA | 6,204 | 73.0% | 64 min | 1.34% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1560 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1560 held fairly steady: 70.9% in Jan–Mar 2026, 73.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 66.7% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights70.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights73.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights66.7%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1560 did best on Wednesday at 83.3% on time and worst on Monday at 63.9%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1560 runs when it is late
The 71 late arrivals split 30 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early27 flights10.8%
- Within 15 min151 flights60.6%
- 15–29 min late30 flights12.0%
- 30–59 min late21 flights8.4%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 249 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 76 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1560
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 May 2026, 8 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2026 | 8 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 August 2026 | 4 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 July 2026 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 August 2026 | 3 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 August 2026 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 1560 runs late
Carrier accounts for 56% of the 4,369 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,430 of the 4,369 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,369 delay minutes reported on DL 1560.
Cancellations sit at 2.35% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including LAS to MSP (110), but none flew often enough under DL 1560 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to TPA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 255 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking DL 1560
For a booking, read DL 1560 as 71.5% on time with 2.35% cancelled over 255 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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A flight number here means Delta Air Lines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.