Flight number record

DL 2281

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Greer

Route: ATL → GSP
Departs: 23:00
Flights: 331
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five 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 331 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2281's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 40 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

81.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 326 completed flights

Avg delay

61 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.51%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 331 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When DL 2281 flies

DL 2281 flies ATL to GSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 23:00, used on 79 of 331 flights, with 22:54 (48 flights) and 22:49 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 23:0079 flights23.9%
Departs 22:5448 flights14.5%
Departs 22:4940 flights12.1%

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 23:00 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2281 runs 11 points better at 81.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2281 next to ATL to GSP

Every carrier on ATL to GSP combined arrived on time 83.9% of the time across 2,817 flights, so DL 2281 is 2 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 2281 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2281thin sample	331	81.6%	61 min	1.51%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–GSP	2,817	83.9%	57 min	1.53%	B
All carriers on ATL–GSP	2,817	83.9%	57 min	1.53%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.1%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 83 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 202563 flights80.6%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights90.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights78.9%

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

By weekday, DL 2281 ranged from 76.0% on Sunday to 86.4% on Wednesday. With about 47 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2281 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 60% of the 3,655 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
60%
Late-arriving aircraft
21%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, 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 2,194 of the 3,655 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,655 delay minutes reported on DL 2281.

Cancellations sit at 1.51% against a national 1.81%, 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 4.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 331 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. 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

Booking DL 2281

For a booking, read DL 2281 as 81.6% on time with 1.51% cancelled over 331 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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