Flight number record

DL 2071

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Memphis

Route: ATL → MEM
Departs: 11:25
Flights: 296
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 296 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2071's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 122 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 293 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.01%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 296 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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.

Schedule

When DL 2071 flies

DL 2071 flies ATL to MEM without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:25, used on 56 of 296 flights, with 11:20 (39 flights) and 09:05 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:2556 flights18.9%
Departs 11:2039 flights13.2%
Departs 09:0531 flights10.5%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 11:25 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2071 runs 11 points better at 89.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2071 next to ATL to MEM

Every carrier on ATL to MEM combined arrived on time 82.3% of the time across 3,388 flights, so DL 2071 is 8 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,304 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

DL 2071 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2071thin sample	296	89.8%	67 min	1.01%	A
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MEM	3,304	82.6%	61 min	1.85%	B
All carriers on ATL–MEM	3,388	82.3%	62 min	1.86%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2071 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2071 held fairly steady: 89.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.9% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 93.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights89.0%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights90.9%
Jan–Mar 202627 flights—
Apr–Jun 202688 flights93.1%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2071 did best on Friday at 97.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 78.6%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2071 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 1,998 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
55%
Late-arriving aircraft
37%
National Airspace System
7%
Extreme weather
1%

37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,998 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,998 delay minutes reported on DL 2071.

Cancellations sit at 1.01% against a national 1.81%, 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 2.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 ATL to MEM flight. It also flew MEM to ATL (294 flights, 92.1% 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. 296 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2071
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MEM to ATLthin sample	294	92.1%	92 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: 89.8% on time and 1.01% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

Where to go next

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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