Flight number record
DL 2071
Delta Air Lines · Memphis to Atlanta
- Route
- MEM → ATL
- Departs
- 10:36
- Flights
- 297
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2071, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2071 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 297 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2071's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 152 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 294 completed flights
Avg delay
93 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.01%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 297 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When DL 2071 flies
DL 2071 flies MEM to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:36, used on 42 of 297 flights, with 12:48 (40 flights) and 12:46 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 10:3642 flights14.1%
- Departs 12:4840 flights13.5%
- Departs 12:4635 flights11.8%
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 10:36 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2071 runs 9 points better at 92.5%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2071 next to MEM to ATL
Every carrier on MEM to ATL combined arrived on time 86.2% of the time across 3,432 flights, so DL 2071 is 6 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,348 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.7% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2071thin sample | 297 | 92.5% | 93 min | 1.01% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on MEM–ATL | 3,348 | 86.7% | 94 min | 1.85% | A |
| All carriers on MEM–ATL | 3,432 | 86.2% | 93 min | 1.92% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2071 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2071 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 94.8% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 2 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights93.4%
- Jan–Mar 202628 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights94.3%
- Jul–Sep 202659 flights94.8%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2071 did best on Saturday at 97.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 85.7%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2071 runs when it is late
DL 2071 often beats the schedule: 132 of 294 completed flights, 45%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 22 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early132 flights44.9%
- Within 15 min140 flights47.6%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.4%
- 30–59 min late6 flights2.0%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 294 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 31 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 10 still arrived on time. Only 1 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2071
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 March 2026, 5 hours 49 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 March 2026 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 December 2025 | 5 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 September 2025 | 4 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 November 2025 | 2 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 October 2025 | 2 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2071 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 74% of the 2,050 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 74%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 2%National Airspace System
74% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,050 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 74 to one. The split is drawn from 2,050 delay minutes reported on DL 2071.
Cancellations sit at 1.01% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
DL 2071 is not only a MEM to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to MEM (293 flights, 89.7% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 297 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL to MEMthin sample | 293 | 89.7% | 71 min | 1.02% | A |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2071
For a booking, DL 2071 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.5% on time and 1.01% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
- MEM to ATL, every carrier and departure
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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.