Flight number record

DL 2224

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to New Orleans

Route: ATL → MSY
Departs: 23:00
Flights: 339
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2224, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2224 lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 339 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2224's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 52 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 332 completed flights

Avg delay

54 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.06%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 339 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 2224 flies

DL 2224 flies ATL to MSY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 23:00, used on 63 of 339 flights, with 22:30 (48 flights) and 23:08 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 23:0063 flights18.6%
Departs 22:3048 flights14.2%
Departs 23:0836 flights10.6%

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 2224 runs 12 points better at 82.8%. 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 2224 next to ATL to MSY

Every carrier on ATL to MSY combined arrived on time 81.4% of the time across 4,052 flights, so DL 2224 is about level with it. Delta flew 3,275 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 2224 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2224thin sample	339	82.8%	54 min	2.06%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MSY	3,275	83.2%	58 min	1.53%	B
All carriers on ATL–MSY	4,052	81.4%	59 min	1.46%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2224 quarter by quarter

DL 2224 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 87.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 73.6%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 85 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 202592 flights73.6%
Oct–Dec 202586 flights85.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.2%
Apr–Jun 202671 flights87.0%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2224 did best on Thursday at 91.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 75.5%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2224 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 48% of the 3,056 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
48%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
8%

The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,465 of the 3,056 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,056 delay minutes reported on DL 2224.

Cancellations sit at 2.06% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.0% 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 roughly 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

Every one of the 339 flights under DL 2224 in the data flew ATL to MSY. 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. 339 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 2224

For a booking, read DL 2224 as 82.8% on time with 2.06% cancelled over 339 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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