Flight number record
DL 2281
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Greer
- Route
- ATL → GSP
- Departs
- 22:54
- Flights
- 343
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2281, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2281 lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 343 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 338 completed flights
Avg delay
59 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.46%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 343 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 2281 flies
DL 2281 flies ATL to GSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:54, used on 74 of 343 flights, with 23:00 (46 flights) and 22:49 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 22:5474 flights21.6%
- Departs 23:0046 flights13.4%
- Departs 22:4940 flights11.7%
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 22:54 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2281 runs 11 points better at 80.8%. 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 2281 next to ATL to GSP
Every carrier on ATL to GSP combined arrived on time 83.7% of the time across 2,797 flights, so DL 2281 is 3 points behind 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 2281thin sample | 343 | 80.8% | 59 min | 1.46% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–GSP | 2,797 | 83.7% | 58 min | 1.61% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–GSP | 2,797 | 83.7% | 58 min | 1.61% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2281 quarter by quarter
DL 2281 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 90.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 72.1%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 86 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 202513 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights90.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights78.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights72.1%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2281 did best on Wednesday at 89.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 70.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2281 runs when it is late
The 65 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 29 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 14 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early47 flights13.9%
- Within 15 min226 flights66.9%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late29 flights8.6%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.4%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 338 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 56 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2281
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 December 2025, 10 hours 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 December 2025 | 10 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 March 2026 | 5 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 June 2026 | 2 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 February 2026 | 2 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 March 2026 | 2 hours 3 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2281 runs late
Carrier accounts for 64% of the 3,801 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Carrier
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,422 of the 3,801 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,801 delay minutes reported on DL 2281.
Cancellations sit at 1.46% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.1% 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.
Every one of the 343 flights under DL 2281 in the data flew ATL to GSP. 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. 343 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 2281 as 80.8% on time with 1.46% cancelled over 343 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.