Flight number record
DL 2083
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Little Rock
- Route
- ATL → LIT
- Departs
- 23:00
- Flights
- 345
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2083, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2083 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 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 345 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2083's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 69 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 341 completed flights
Avg delay
87 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.16%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 345 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2083 flies
DL 2083 flies ATL to LIT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 23:00, used on 84 of 345 flights, with 22:49 (46 flights) and 23:05 (39 flights) next.
- Departs 23:0084 flights24.3%
- Departs 22:4946 flights13.3%
- Departs 23:0539 flights11.3%
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 23:00 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2083 runs 14 points better at 84.2%. 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 2083 next to ATL to LIT
Every carrier on ATL to LIT combined arrived on time 84.6% of the time across 2,276 flights, so DL 2083 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2083thin sample | 345 | 84.2% | 87 min | 1.16% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–LIT | 2,276 | 84.6% | 68 min | 1.98% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–LIT | 2,276 | 84.6% | 68 min | 1.98% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2083 quarter by quarter
DL 2083 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 77.4%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 69 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202572 flights84.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights77.4%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2083 did best on Thursday at 89.8% on time and worst on Monday at 73.1%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2083 runs when it is late
DL 2083 often beats the schedule: 117 of 341 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 54 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early117 flights34.3%
- Within 15 min170 flights49.9%
- 15–29 min late12 flights3.5%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.3%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 341 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 55 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2083
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 February 2026, 10 hours 31 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 February 2026 | 10 hours 31 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 October 2025 | 8 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 July 2026 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 March 2026 | 3 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 February 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2083 runs late
Carrier accounts for 48% of the 4,698 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Carrier
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 18% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,698 delay minutes reported on DL 2083.
Cancellations sit at 1.16% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.0% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
Every one of the 345 flights under DL 2083 in the data flew ATL to LIT. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 345 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
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For a booking, read DL 2083 as 84.2% on time with 1.16% cancelled over 345 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.