Flight number record

DL 744

Delta Air Lines · Tampa to Atlanta

Route: TPA → ATL
Departs: 08:05
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 744, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 744 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 744's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 118 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights

Avg delay

106 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.10%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 744 flies

DL 744 flies TPA to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:05, used on 73 of 363 flights, with 08:35 (60 flights) and 08:10 (55 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:0573 flights20.1%
Departs 08:3560 flights16.5%
Departs 08:1055 flights15.2%

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 08:05 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 744 runs 5 points better at 89.4%. 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 744 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 744 is 10 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 8 points.

DL 744 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 744thin sample	363	89.4%	106 min	1.10%	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 744 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 744 held fairly steady: 87.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 92.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights87.0%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights85.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights93.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.2%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 744 ranged from 82.4% on Monday to 94.2% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 744 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 75% of the 4,027 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
75%
National Airspace System
22%
Late-arriving aircraft
1%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 75%, 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 3,025 of the 4,027 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,027 delay minutes reported on DL 744.

Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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.

Every one of the 363 flights under DL 744 in the data flew TPA 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. 363 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 744

For a booking, DL 744 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.4% on time and 1.10% 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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