Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL2045
Tampa (TPA) to Salt Lake City (SLC) · scheduled 7:15 AM – 9:52 AM
How DL2045 performs
724 operations, June 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on TPA → SLC, DL2045 averaged about 6 operations a week (724 in 816 days, cancelled ones included).
DL2045 arrived on time 87.2% of the time, against 88.4% for all TPA → SLC flights, so this departure is 1.2 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 1.7 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 724 operations, June 2024 – August 2026 · If DL2045 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL2045 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2045 | 87.2% | 1.10% | -10 min | 4.2% | 724 |
| Delta Air Lines on TPA → SLC | 88.9% | 0.87% | -11 min | 3.2% | 1,155 |
| All TPA → SLC flights | 88.4% | 0.85% | -11 min | 3.4% | 1,170 |
DL2045 cancelled 8 of 724 operations (1.10%), close to the 0.85% for TPA → SLC.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
Why DL2045 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL2045 on TPA → SLC. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL2045 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying DL2045 came in 15 or more minutes late on 15% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into TPA: 683 of 716 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| DL2045 | 15% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
77 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often DL2045’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves TPA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches SLC?
DL2045 pushes back an average of 6.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at SLC an average of 2.3 minutes early. The 9.1 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so on average a late pushback on this flight is made up before the gate. Its 15.8 minutes on the taxiways at TPA is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at SLC, DL2045 spends 7.8 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at SLC spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 27,130 TPA departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 365,173 arrivals at SLC. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves TPA
DL2045 has one departure time, 7:15 AM, so this is what that hour at TPA is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 27,130 departures from TPA are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 248,351 across the whole day.
DL2045 is scheduled out of TPA at 7:15 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from TPA in that hour arrive on time 89.5% of the time against 78.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 11.4 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from TPA, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL2045 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. DL2045 also served these 11 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DTW→ATL Detroit to Atlanta | July 7, 2026 – August 1, 2026 | 26 | — |
| SAV→BOS Savannah to Boston | November 29, 2024 | 1 | — |
| ATL→VPS Atlanta to Valparaiso | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| VPS→ATL Valparaiso to Atlanta | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| DTW→ALB Detroit to Albany | May 6, 2024 | 1 | — |
| LAX→IND Los Angeles to Indianapolis | April 10, 2024 – May 5, 2024 | 16 | — |
| SLC→SNA Salt Lake City to Santa Ana | March 10, 2024 – April 8, 2024 | 26 | — |
| IAH→DTW Houston to Detroit | January 8, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 62 | — |
| SJC→SLC San Jose to Salt Lake City | July 1, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 174 | 93.6% |
| SLC→SJC Salt Lake City to San Jose | July 1, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 174 | 91.3% |
| DTW→MSN Detroit to Madison | November 28, 2023 – December 6, 2023 | 9 | — |
The figures above describe only TPA → SLC, the route DL2045 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
21 min late
against a median of 10 min early
Percentiles over 724 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 724 records of DL2045 operating TPA → SLC, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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