Flight number record
DL 2353
Delta Air Lines · Newark to Atlanta
- Route
- EWR → ATL
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2353's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights
Avg delay
112 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.29%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 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 345 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 06:00345 flights94.5%
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 06:00 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 6 points worse at 83.2%. 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 2353 next to EWR to ATL
Every carrier on EWR to ATL combined arrived on time 76.9% of the time across 6,252 flights, so DL 2353 is 6 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,038 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2353 | 365 | 83.2% | 112 min | 3.29% | B− |
| All Delta Air Lines on EWR–ATL | 3,038 | 79.3% | 95 min | 3.95% | B− |
| All carriers on EWR–ATL | 6,252 | 76.9% | 89 min | 3.85% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2353 quarter by quarter
DL 2353 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 76.3%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 73 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 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights84.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights76.3%
Scale runs 70% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 2353 ranged from 76.6% on Monday to 86.3% on Friday. With about 52 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2353 runs when it is late
DL 2353 often beats the schedule: 120 of 351 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 59 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early120 flights34.2%
- Within 15 min172 flights49.0%
- 15–29 min late28 flights8.0%
- 30–59 min late6 flights1.7%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late18 flights5.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 351 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 52 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2353
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 March 2026, 13 hours 16 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across March, December, July, October and May, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 March 2026 | 13 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 December 2025 | 7 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 July 2026 | 7 hours 16 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 25 October 2025 | 6 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 May 2026 | 4 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2353 runs late
Carrier accounts for 64% of the 6,581 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Carrier
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,179 of the 6,581 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,581 delay minutes reported on DL 2353.
Cancellations run at 3.29%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
7.1% 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 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.
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: 3.29% 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 route77.0%
- Delta Air Lines 2397 on the same route81.0%
- Frontier Airlines 1157 on the same route64.1%
- Delta Air Lines 1673 on the same route85.1%
- Delta Air Lines 2325 on the same route80.9%
- Delta Air Lines 2365 on the same route82.7%
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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.