Flight number record

DL 2385

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Tampa

Route: MSP → TPA
Departs: 18:45
Flights: 357
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2385, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2385 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 357 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2385 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 44 extra late arrivals.

On time

73.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.28%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 357 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 2385 flies

DL 2385 flies MSP to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:45, used on 55 of 357 flights, with 19:55 (39 flights) and 18:10 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:4555 flights15.4%
Departs 19:5539 flights10.9%
Departs 18:1038 flights10.6%

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 18:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2385 runs 5 points better at 73.2%. 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 2385 next to MSP to TPA

Every carrier on MSP to TPA combined arrived on time 80.6% of the time across 1,179 flights, so DL 2385 is 7 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 8 points.

DL 2385 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2385thin sample	357	73.2%	59 min	0.28%	C+
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–TPA	1,179	80.6%	61 min	0.93%	B+
All carriers on MSP–TPA	1,179	80.6%	61 min	0.93%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2385 quarter by quarter

DL 2385 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 65.6%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 89 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 202590 flights65.6%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights70.9%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights82.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights73.6%

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2385 did best on Tuesday at 81.1% on time and worst on Friday at 62.0%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2385 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 53% of the 5,627 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
53%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
National Airspace System
22%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 53%, 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 2,971 of the 5,627 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,627 delay minutes reported on DL 2385.

Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

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. 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 357 flights under DL 2385 in the data flew MSP to TPA. 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. 357 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 2385

For a booking, DL 2385 is one of the weaker ways to fly MSP to TPA: 7 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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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