Flight number record

DL 2083

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Little Rock

Route: ATL → LIT
Departs: 23:00
Flights: 344
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 344 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2083's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 65 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 340 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.16%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 344 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2083 flies

DL 2083 flies ATL to LIT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 23:00, used on 103 of 344 flights, with 23:02 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 23:00103 flights29.9%
Departs 23:0236 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 23:00 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2083 runs 14 points better at 84.1%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2083 next to ATL to LIT

Every carrier on ATL to LIT combined arrived on time 85.4% of the time across 2,288 flights, so DL 2083 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 2083 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2083thin sample	344	84.1%	81 min	1.16%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–LIT	2,288	85.4%	67 min	1.84%	A
All carriers on ATL–LIT	2,288	85.4%	67 min	1.84%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2083 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2083 held fairly steady: 82.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 85.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights82.4%
Oct–Dec 202572 flights84.5%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.7%

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2083 did best on Thursday at 93.9% on time and worst on Monday at 76.5%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2083 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 45% of the 4,377 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
45%
Late-arriving aircraft
27%
Extreme weather
20%
National Airspace System
8%

Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,377 delay minutes reported on DL 2083.

Cancellations sit at 1.16% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

Every one of the 344 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. 344 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 2083

For a booking, read DL 2083 as 84.1% on time with 1.16% cancelled over 344 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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