Flight number record
DL 808
Delta Air Lines · Tampa to Detroit
- Route
- TPA → DTW
- Departs
- 08:30
- Flights
- 341
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 808, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 808 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 341 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 808's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 144 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 337 completed flights
Avg delay
95 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.17%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 341 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 808 flies
DL 808 flies TPA to DTW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:30, used on 95 of 341 flights, with 05:40 (53 flights) and 06:00 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 08:3095 flights27.9%
- Departs 05:4053 flights15.5%
- Departs 06:0036 flights10.6%
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 08:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 808 runs 8 points better at 91.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 808 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 808 is 11 points ahead of 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 beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 808thin sample | 341 | 91.7% | 95 min | 1.17% | A |
| 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 808 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 808 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.9% in Jan–Mar 2026, 94.5% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.7% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights93.4%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights88.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.7%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 808 ranged from 85.7% on Monday to 95.8% on Wednesday. With about 49 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 808 runs when it is late
DL 808 often beats the schedule: 163 of 337 completed flights, 48%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 28 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early163 flights48.4%
- Within 15 min146 flights43.3%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.3%
- 30–59 min late9 flights2.7%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.6%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 337 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 27 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 808
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 January 2026, 10 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 January 2026 | 10 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 December 2025 | 5 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 September 2025 | 4 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 4 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 December 2025 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 808 runs late
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 2,653 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,653 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 16 to one. The split is drawn from 2,653 delay minutes reported on DL 808.
Cancellations sit at 1.17% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.
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.
Every one of the 341 flights under DL 808 in the data flew TPA to DTW. 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. 341 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 808
For a booking, DL 808 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.7% on time and 1.17% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
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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.