Flight number record
DL 2353
Delta Air Lines · Newark to Atlanta
- Route
- EWR → ATL
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2353, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2353 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 close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2353's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 63 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights
Avg delay
108 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.74%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
6.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 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 2353 flies
DL 2353 is scheduled to leave Newark (EWR) at 06:00 local time and reach Atlanta (ATL) at 08:15. That slot held for 348 of the 365 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 06:00348 flights95.3%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2353 runs 5 points worse at 83.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
DL 2353 next to EWR to ATL
Every carrier on EWR to ATL combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 6,290 flights, so DL 2353 is 6 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,055 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2353 | 365 | 83.9% | 108 min | 2.74% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on EWR–ATL | 3,055 | 80.1% | 88 min | 3.40% | B− |
| All carriers on EWR–ATL | 6,290 | 77.6% | 84 min | 3.39% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2353 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2353 held fairly steady: 83.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 85.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights83.5%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights84.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.6%
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2353 did best on Wednesday at 88.5% on time and worst on Monday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2353 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 69% of the 6,125 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.
- 69%Carrier
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, 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 4,212 of the 6,125 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,125 delay minutes reported on DL 2353.
Cancellations run at 2.74%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.2% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 746 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.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 2353 in the data flew EWR to ATL. 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. 365 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 2353
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2353: 2.74% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to EWR, the return direction
- Frontier Airlines 4601 on the same route70.5%
- Delta Air Lines 2397 on the same route80.4%
- Frontier Airlines 1157 on the same route69.8%
- Delta Air Lines 1673 on the same route87.7%
- Delta Air Lines 2325 on the same route83.7%
- Delta Air Lines 2365 on the same route83.2%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.