Flight number record

DL 2263

Delta Air Lines · Tampa to Minneapolis

Route: TPA → MSP
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 365
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2263, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2263 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2263's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 139 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights

Avg delay

43 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

2.2%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 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.

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Schedule

When DL 2263 flies

DL 2263 flies TPA to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 147 of 365 flights, with 07:45 (56 flights) and 07:30 (53 flights) next.

Departs 07:00147 flights40.3%
Departs 07:4556 flights15.3%
Departs 07:3053 flights14.5%

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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2263 runs level with that at 91.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

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Against the route

DL 2263 next to TPA to MSP

Every carrier on TPA to MSP combined arrived on time 81.9% of the time across 1,168 flights, so DL 2263 is 9 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

DL 2263 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2263	365	91.2%	43 min	0.27%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on TPA–MSP	1,168	81.9%	71 min	0.94%	B+
All carriers on TPA–MSP	1,168	81.9%	71 min	0.94%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2263 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2263 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.3% in Jan–Mar 2026, 90.1% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 85.5% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights93.5%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights93.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.5%

Scale runs 75% to 100%.

By weekday, DL 2263 did best on Monday at 96.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 78.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2263 runs when it is late

Most of the lateness is short. 18 of the 32 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 8 reached an hour or more.

15+ min early90 flights24.7%
Within 15 min242 flights66.5%
15–29 min late18 flights4.9%
30–59 min late6 flights1.6%
1–2 hours late7 flights1.9%
2+ hours late1 flights0.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 364 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

5 of 23 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2263

The latest arrival of the period was on 10 May 2026, 2 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of DL 2263 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
10 May 2026	2 hours 2 minutes	Carrier
11 November 2025	1 hour 59 minutes	Carrier
28 August 2026	1 hour 43 minutes	Carrier
17 October 2025	1 hour 26 minutes	Carrier
25 September 2025	1 hour 23 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 2263 runs late

Carrier accounts for 66% of the 1,359 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
66%
National Airspace System
28%
Security
3%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 897 of the 1,359 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,359 delay minutes reported on DL 2263.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.

The 1,306 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.

Every one of the 365 flights under DL 2263 in the data flew TPA to MSP. 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. 365 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 2263

For a booking, DL 2263 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.2% on time and 0.27% 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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