Flight number record
DL 2385
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Tampa
- Route
- MSP → TPA
- Departs
- 18:10
- Flights
- 359
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 359 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2385 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 54 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.28%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 359 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2385 flies
DL 2385 flies MSP to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:10, used on 63 of 359 flights, with 18:45 (42 flights) and 18:20 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 18:1063 flights17.5%
- Departs 18:4542 flights11.7%
- Departs 18:2037 flights10.3%
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 18:10 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2385 runs 4 points better at 71.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2385 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 2385 is 8 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2385thin sample | 359 | 71.9% | 72 min | 0.28% | C+ |
| 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 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 2026 at 51.6%, a swing of 31 points on roughly 72 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 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights70.9%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights82.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights73.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights51.6%
Scale runs 45% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2385 did best on Tuesday at 84.6% on time and worst on Friday at 58.8%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2385 runs when it is late
The 100 late arrivals split 33 under half an hour, 31 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 36 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early82 flights23.0%
- Within 15 min174 flights48.9%
- 15–29 min late33 flights9.3%
- 30–59 min late31 flights8.7%
- 1–2 hours late18 flights5.1%
- 2+ hours late18 flights5.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 356 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
27 of 106 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 21 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 2385
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 July 2026, 7 hours 21 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 July 2026 | 7 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 5 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 August 2026 | 5 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 July 2026 | 4 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 June 2026 | 4 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2385 runs late
Carrier accounts for 65% of the 7,243 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 65%Carrier
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,742 of the 7,243 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,243 delay minutes reported on DL 2385.
Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, below the national 1.89% 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
10.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.
Every one of the 359 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. 359 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: 8 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.
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Where to go next
- MSP to TPA, every carrier and departure
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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.