Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL2301
Minneapolis (MSP) to Tampa (TPA) · scheduled 7:00 AM – 10:24 AM
How DL2301 performs
618 operations, June 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on MSP → TPA, DL2301 averaged about 5 operations a week (618 in 816 days, cancelled ones included).
DL2301 arrived on time 88.3% of the time, against 83.4% for all MSP → TPA flights, so this departure is 4.9 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 4.8 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 618 operations, June 2024 – August 2026 · If DL2301 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL2301 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2301 | 88.3% | 2.10% | -8 min | 2.5% | 618 |
| Delta Air Lines on MSP → TPA | 83.5% | 1.23% | -7 min | 5.4% | 3,751 |
| All MSP → TPA flights | 83.4% | 1.22% | -7 min | 5.4% | 3,778 |
DL2301 cancelled 13 of 618 operations (2.10%), above the 1.22% for MSP → TPA.
2.5% of DL2301’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 5.4% across MSP → TPA, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
Why DL2301 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL2301 on MSP → TPA. 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 DL2301 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
DL2301 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 8.2 hours on the ground at MSP, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
The aircraft flying DL2301 came in 15 or more minutes late on 20% 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 MSP: 492 of 605 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 |
|---|---|
| DL2301 | 20% |
| Network, same turn | 29% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less here than on a same-day turn.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often DL2301’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than 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 MSP late, does that still matter by the time it reaches TPA?
DL2301 pushes back an average of 0.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at TPA an average of 2.9 minutes early. The 3.7 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 21.8 minutes on the taxiways at MSP is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at TPA, DL2301 spends 6.0 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 TPA 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 29,597 MSP departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 248,359 arrivals at TPA. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves MSP
DL2301 has one departure time, 7:00 AM, so this is what that hour at MSP is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 29,597 departures from MSP are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 380,472 across the whole day.
DL2301 is scheduled out of MSP at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from MSP in that hour arrive on time 87.6% of the time against 81.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 6.5 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from MSP, 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 DL2301 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. DL2301 also served these 13 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPA→MSP Tampa to Minneapolis | June 7, 2024 – August 31, 2026 | 319 | 82.1% |
| BOS→LGA Boston to New York | September 13, 2025 – October 4, 2025 | 4 | — |
| ATL→MKE Atlanta to Milwaukee | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 26 | — |
| MKE→ATL Milwaukee to Atlanta | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 26 | — |
| DFW→MSP Dallas–Fort Worth to Minneapolis | April 9, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 24 | — |
| MSP→DFW Minneapolis to Dallas–Fort Worth | April 9, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 24 | — |
| BOS→JFK Boston to New York | March 10, 2024 – April 8, 2024 | 30 | — |
| MCO→BOS Orlando to Boston | January 8, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 62 | — |
| DTW→MSP Detroit to Minneapolis | November 5, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 41 | — |
| SNA→SLC Santa Ana to Salt Lake City | October 9–27, 2023 | 17 | — |
| PDX→MSP Portland to Minneapolis | September 12, 2023 – October 3, 2023 | 5 | — |
| MCI→ATL Kansas City to Atlanta | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 66 | — |
| ATL→MCI Atlanta to Kansas City | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 53 | — |
The figures above describe only MSP → TPA, the route DL2301 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
19 min late
against a median of 8 min early
Percentiles over 618 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2301 this flight | Delta Air Lines | 88.3% | 8 min early | 618 |
| DL2264 | Delta Air Lines | 84.4% | 6 min early | 704 |
| DL2385 | Delta Air Lines | 72.1% | 2 min early | 786 |
Among all 3 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, DL2301 has the highest on-time rate. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 618 records of DL2301 operating MSP → TPA, 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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