Flight number record
DL 2224
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to New Orleans
- Route
- ATL → MSY
- Departs
- 23:00
- Flights
- 331
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2224, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2224 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 331 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2224's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 55 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 325 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.81%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 331 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 51 of 331 flights, with 23:08 (36 flights) and 22:30 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 23:0051 flights15.4%
- Departs 23:0836 flights10.9%
- Departs 22:3035 flights10.6%
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 2224 runs 13 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.
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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 4,002 flights, so DL 2224 is about level with it. Delta flew 3,276 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2224thin sample | 331 | 82.8% | 58 min | 1.81% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MSY | 3,276 | 83.5% | 59 min | 1.47% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–MSY | 4,002 | 81.4% | 59 min | 1.45% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 2026 at 66.7%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 66 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 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202586 flights85.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.2%
- Apr–Jun 202671 flights87.0%
- Jul–Sep 202654 flights66.7%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2224 did best on Wednesday at 94.2% on time and worst on Friday at 73.5%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2224 runs when it is late
DL 2224 often beats the schedule: 91 of 325 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 56 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early91 flights28.0%
- Within 15 min178 flights54.8%
- 15–29 min late12 flights3.7%
- 30–59 min late21 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late19 flights5.8%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 325 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 61 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2224
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 August 2026, 2 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across August, July, May and March, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2026 | 2 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 August 2026 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 2 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 May 2026 | 2 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 March 2026 | 1 hour 57 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2224 runs late
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 3,273 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,273 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 16 to one. The split is drawn from 3,273 delay minutes reported on DL 2224.
Cancellations sit at 1.81% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.1% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
Every one of the 331 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. 331 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 2224 as 82.8% on time with 1.81% cancelled over 331 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- ATL to MSY, every carrier and departure
- MSY to ATL, the return direction
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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.