Flight number record
DL 2301
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Tampa
- Route
- MSP → TPA
- Departs
- 06:05
- Flights
- 252
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2301, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2301 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 40 minutes. That rests on 252 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2301's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 111 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 249 completed flights
Avg delay
38 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.19%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 252 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2301 flies
DL 2301 flies MSP to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:05, used on 62 of 252 flights, with 07:05 (49 flights) and 06:10 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 06:0562 flights24.6%
- Departs 07:0549 flights19.4%
- Departs 06:1036 flights14.3%
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 06:05 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2301 runs level with that at 88.4%. 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 2301 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 2301 is 8 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2301thin sample | 252 | 88.4% | 38 min | 1.19% | A |
| 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 2301 quarter by quarter
DL 2301 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.6% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 83.9%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 84 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.
- Oct–Dec 202510 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights83.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2301 ranged from 83.3% on Wednesday to 91.7% on Thursday. With about 36 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2301 runs when it is late
DL 2301 often beats the schedule: 91 of 249 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 15 of the 29 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 4 reached an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early91 flights36.5%
- Within 15 min129 flights51.8%
- 15–29 min late15 flights6.0%
- 30–59 min late10 flights4.0%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.6%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 249 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 20 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 6 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 15 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 2301
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 December 2025, 1 hour 45 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 25 December 2025 | 1 hour 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 March 2026 | 1 hour 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 January 2026 | 1 hour 28 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 21 June 2026 | 1 hour 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 February 2026 | 59 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2301 runs late
Carrier accounts for 55% of the 1,112 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Carrier
- 37%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 408 minutes out of 1,112, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,112 delay minutes reported on DL 2301.
Cancellations sit at 1.19% 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 1.6% 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.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including TPA to MSP (130) and BOS to LGA (4), but none flew often enough under DL 2301 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. 252 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 2301
For a booking, DL 2301 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.4% on time and 1.19% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to TPA, every carrier and departure
- TPA to MSP, the return direction
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- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
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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.