Flight number record

DL 2605

Delta Air Lines · Tampa to Atlanta

Route: TPA → ATL
Departs: 09:58
Flights: 264
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2605, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2605 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 55 minutes. That rests on 264 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2605's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 113 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 261 completed flights

Avg delay

55 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.76%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 264 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 2605 flies

DL 2605 flies TPA to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:58, used on 75 of 264 flights, with 09:59 (51 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:5875 flights28.4%
Departs 09:5951 flights19.3%

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 09:58 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2605 runs 5 points better at 88.9%. 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 2605 next to TPA to ATL

Every carrier on TPA to ATL combined arrived on time 79.9% of the time across 6,138 flights, so DL 2605 is 9 points ahead of it. Delta flew 4,413 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.7% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

DL 2605 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2605thin sample	264	88.9%	55 min	0.76%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on TPA–ATL	4,413	81.7%	75 min	1.22%	B
All carriers on TPA–ATL	6,138	79.9%	71 min	1.25%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2605 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2605 held fairly steady: 85.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 89.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202565 flights85.9%
Oct–Dec 202559 flights89.5%
Jan–Mar 202657 flights91.2%
Apr–Jun 202683 flights89.2%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2605 ranged from 84.4% on Friday to 93.8% on Thursday. With about 38 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2605 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 1,588 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
48%
National Airspace System
35%
Carrier
17%
Extreme weather
1%

48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,588 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 36 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,588 delay minutes reported on DL 2605.

Cancellations are rare at 0.76%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

DL 2605 is not only a TPA to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to TPA (251 flights, 91.5% 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. 264 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2605
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ATL to TPAthin sample	251	91.5%	45 min	0.80%	A+

What to do with this

Booking DL 2605

For a booking, DL 2605 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.9% on time and 0.76% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

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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