Flight number record
DL 2264
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Tampa
- Route
- MSP → TPA
- Departs
- 12:50
- Flights
- 280
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2264, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2264 lands a B, 5 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 280 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2264's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 48 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 274 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.43%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 280 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 280 flights, with 12:45 (55 flights) and 12:55 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 12:50113 flights40.4%
- Departs 12:4555 flights19.6%
- Departs 12:5538 flights13.6%
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 12:50 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2264 runs 4 points better at 82.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2264 next to MSP to TPA
Every carrier on MSP to TPA combined arrived on time 80.1% of the time across 1,167 flights, so DL 2264 is 2 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2264thin sample | 280 | 82.1% | 60 min | 1.43% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–TPA | 1,167 | 80.1% | 66 min | 1.03% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–TPA | 1,167 | 80.1% | 66 min | 1.03% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2264 quarter by quarter
DL 2264 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 87.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 76.5%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 70 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 202512 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202568 flights78.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.5%
- Apr–Jun 202674 flights87.8%
- Jul–Sep 202636 flights76.5%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2264 did best on Wednesday at 89.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 73.9%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2264 runs when it is late
DL 2264 often beats the schedule: 74 of 274 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 49 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early74 flights27.0%
- Within 15 min151 flights55.1%
- 15–29 min late18 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late15 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 274 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 36 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 17 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at TPA.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2264
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 4 hours 5 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 5 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 17 March 2026 | 3 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 May 2026 | 2 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 August 2026 | 2 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 2 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2264 runs late
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 2,920 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 33%National Airspace System
- 15%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,513 of the 2,920 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,920 delay minutes reported on DL 2264.
Cancellations sit at 1.43% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.71%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.8% 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.
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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including TPA to MSP (208), 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. 280 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 2264 as 82.1% on time with 1.43% cancelled over 280 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.