Flight number record
DL 2587
Delta Air Lines · Tampa to Detroit
- Route
- TPA → DTW
- Departs
- 14:00
- Flights
- 250
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2587, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2587 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 250 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 248 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.40%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 250 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 2587 flies
DL 2587 flies TPA to DTW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:00, used on 86 of 250 flights, with 14:31 (39 flights) and 13:52 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 14:0086 flights34.4%
- Departs 14:3139 flights15.6%
- Departs 13:5231 flights12.4%
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 14:00 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2587 runs 5 points better at 76.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2587 next to TPA to DTW
Every carrier on TPA to DTW combined arrived on time 81.2% of the time across 2,292 flights, so DL 2587 is 5 points behind it. Delta flew 1,715 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2587thin sample | 250 | 76.6% | 82 min | 0.40% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on TPA–DTW | 1,715 | 82.4% | 77 min | 1.17% | B |
| All carriers on TPA–DTW | 2,292 | 81.2% | 74 min | 1.83% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2587 quarter by quarter
DL 2587 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 87.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 69.4%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 83 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 202512 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights75.9%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights87.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights69.4%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2587 did best on Saturday at 87.5% on time and worst on Friday at 63.9%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2587 runs when it is late
DL 2587 often beats the schedule: 69 of 248 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 58 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early69 flights27.8%
- Within 15 min121 flights48.8%
- 15–29 min late16 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late23 flights9.3%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 248 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 66 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2587
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 December 2025, 8 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 December 2025 | 8 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 May 2026 | 8 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 5 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 June 2026 | 5 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2587 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 4,772 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,772 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 4,772 delay minutes reported on DL 2587.
Cancellations are rare at 0.40%, 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
7.7% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 983 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.
DL 2587 is not only a TPA to DTW flight. It also flew DTW to TPA (250 flights, 79.8% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 250 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTW to TPAthin sample | 250 | 79.8% | 60 min | 0.40% | B+ |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2587
For a booking, read DL 2587 as 76.6% on time with 0.40% cancelled over 250 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- TPA to DTW, every carrier and departure
- DTW to TPA, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 808 on the same route91.7%
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) 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.