Flight number record

DL 2264

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Tampa

Route: MSP → TPA
Departs: 12:50
Flights: 286
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2264, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2264 lands a B, 6 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 about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 286 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2264's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 57 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 282 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.40%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 286 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 2264 flies

DL 2264 flies MSP to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:50, used on 113 of 286 flights, with 13:00 (69 flights) and 12:45 (39 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:50113 flights39.5%
Departs 13:0069 flights24.1%
Departs 12:4539 flights13.6%

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 12:50 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2264 runs 5 points better at 83.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2264 next to MSP to TPA

Every carrier on MSP to TPA combined arrived on time 80.6% of the time across 1,179 flights, so DL 2264 is 3 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

DL 2264 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2264thin sample	286	83.3%	62 min	1.40%	B
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–TPA	1,179	80.6%	61 min	0.93%	B+
All carriers on MSP–TPA	1,179	80.6%	61 min	0.93%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2264 quarter by quarter

DL 2264 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 88.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 78.8%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 72 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 202554 flights88.9%
Oct–Dec 202568 flights78.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.5%
Apr–Jun 202674 flights87.8%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2264 did best on Thursday at 91.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 72.3%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2264 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 53% of the 2,890 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
53%
National Airspace System
31%
Late-arriving aircraft
16%

The largest share of delay minutes, 53%, 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 1,532 of the 2,890 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,890 delay minutes reported on DL 2264.

Cancellations sit at 1.40% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.4% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including TPA to MSP (214), but none flew often enough under DL 2264 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to TPA only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 286 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 2264

For a booking, read DL 2264 as 83.3% on time with 1.40% cancelled over 286 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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