Flight number record
DL 759
Delta Air Lines · Tampa to Atlanta
- Route
- TPA → ATL
- Departs
- 17:59
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 759, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 759 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 759 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 68 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.83%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
11.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.4% 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 759 flies
DL 759 flies TPA to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:59, used on 84 of 363 flights, with 17:55 (52 flights) and 17:58 (51 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 17:5984 flights23.1%
- Departs 17:5552 flights14.3%
- Departs 17:5851 flights14.0%
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 17:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 759 runs 3 points better at 70.8%. 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 759 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 759 is 9 points behind 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 trails by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 759thin sample | 363 | 70.8% | 67 min | 0.83% | C+ |
| 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 759 quarter by quarter
DL 759 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 65.9%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights65.9%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights68.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights71.4%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 759 did best on Saturday at 76.5% on time and worst on Tuesday at 63.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 759 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 7,044 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.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%National Airspace System
- 13%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
60% 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 7,044 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 24 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 7,044 delay minutes reported on DL 759.
Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, 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. 11.4% 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.
DL 759 is not only a TPA to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to TPA (363 flights, 69.6% 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. 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL to TPAthin sample | 363 | 69.6% | 49 min | 0.28% | C+ |
What to do with this
Booking DL 759
For a booking, DL 759 is one of the weaker ways to fly TPA to ATL: 9 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.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to TPA, the return direction
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- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
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- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.