Flight number record
DL 759
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Tampa
- Route
- ATL → TPA
- Departs
- 15:25
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 759 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 88 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.28%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 759 flies
DL 759 flies ATL to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:25, used on 101 of 363 flights, with 15:20 (63 flights) and 15:15 (62 flights) next.
- Departs 15:25101 flights27.8%
- Departs 15:2063 flights17.4%
- Departs 15:1562 flights17.1%
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 15:25 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 759 runs 3 points worse at 68.5%. 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 759 next to ATL to TPA
Every carrier on ATL to TPA combined arrived on time 73.0% of the time across 6,204 flights, so DL 759 is 5 points behind it. Delta flew 4,452 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 759thin sample | 363 | 68.5% | 58 min | 0.28% | C+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–TPA | 4,452 | 74.3% | 59 min | 1.33% | C |
| All carriers on ATL–TPA | 6,204 | 73.0% | 64 min | 1.34% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 759 quarter by quarter
DL 759 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 75.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 55.7%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 73 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 flights73.3%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights75.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights66.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights71.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights55.7%
Scale runs 45% to 80%.
By weekday, DL 759 did best on Wednesday at 78.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 55.1%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 759 runs when it is late
The 113 late arrivals split 38 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 39 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early19 flights5.3%
- Within 15 min227 flights63.2%
- 15–29 min late38 flights10.6%
- 30–59 min late36 flights10.0%
- 1–2 hours late27 flights7.5%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 109 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 13 made it up before arrival. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 759
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 4 hours 57 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across March, July, August and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 57 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 July 2026 | 4 hours 2 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 August 2026 | 3 hours 48 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 27 September 2025 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 August 2026 | 3 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 759 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 6,524 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,524 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 6,524 delay minutes reported on DL 759.
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
10.9% 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.
DL 759 is not only a ATL to TPA flight. It also flew TPA to ATL (363 flights, 68.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TPA to ATLthin sample | 363 | 68.1% | 84 min | 0.83% | C+ |
What to do with this
Booking DL 759
For a booking, read DL 759 as 68.5% on time with 0.28% cancelled over 363 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.