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DL744
Tampa (TPA) to Atlanta (ATL) · scheduled 8:00 AM – 9:36 AM
How DL744 performs
619 operations, December 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on TPA → ATL, DL744 averaged about one operation a day or more (619 in 621 days, cancelled ones included).
DL744 arrived on time 85.3% of the time, against 78.2% for all TPA → ATL flights, so this departure is 7.1 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 5.4 points better.
DL744’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 8:00 AM earlier on, and around 8:45 AM more recently — a 45-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 619 operations, December 2024 – August 2026 · If DL744 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL744 | 85.3% | 1.29% | -9 min | 5.2% | 619 |
| Delta Air Lines on TPA → ATL | 79.9% | 1.54% | -7 min | 8.0% | 13,875 |
| All TPA → ATL flights | 78.2% | 1.66% | -6 min | 8.3% | 20,469 |
DL744 cancelled 8 of 619 operations (1.29%), close to the 1.66% for TPA → ATL.
5.2% of DL744’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 8.3% across TPA → ATL, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · December 2024 – August 2026
Why DL744 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow 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 DL744 on TPA → ATL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering December 2024 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL744 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
DL744 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 10.2 hours on the ground at TPA, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, DL744 pushed back an average of 11 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 4 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into TPA: 496 of 611 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| DL744 | 37% | 18% | 9% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
A night on the ground usually absorbs a late arrival, but this flight has passed a late inbound on more often than the network does.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often DL744’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often DL744 left 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s.
Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft ranks the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering December 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves TPA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ATL?
DL744 pushes back an average of 9.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at ATL an average of 4.8 minutes late. The 5.1 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 16.5 minutes on the taxiways at TPA, 1.1 minutes longer than a typical TPA departure in the same hour.
On arrival at ATL, DL744 spends 10.6 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 1.0 minutes longer than a typical ATL arrival (9.6 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 15,039 TPA departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 1,039,387 arrivals at ATL. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · December 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves TPA
DL744 has one departure time, 8:00 AM, so this is what that hour at TPA is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 15,039 departures from TPA are scheduled in the 8 AM–9 AM hour over the period, against 248,351 across the whole day.
DL744 is scheduled out of TPA at 8:00 AM, in the 8 AM–9 AM bank. Departures from TPA in that hour arrive on time 88.3% of the time against 78.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.2 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 · December 2024 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL744 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. DL744 also served these 14 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRI→ATL Blountville to Atlanta | October 7, 2024 – December 6, 2024 | 59 | — |
| ATL→TRI Atlanta to Blountville | October 7, 2024 – November 10, 2024 | 33 | — |
| ATL→ROA Atlanta to Roanoke | July 8, 2024 – September 2, 2024 | 49 | — |
| ROA→ATL Roanoke to Atlanta | July 8, 2024 – September 2, 2024 | 49 | — |
| MSP→DTW Minneapolis to Detroit | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| ATL→MSY Atlanta to New Orleans | March 10, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 46 | — |
| SEA→BOS Seattle to Boston | January 8, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 62 | — |
| ATL→RDU Atlanta to Raleigh–Durham | July 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023 | 25 | — |
| ATL→SAT Atlanta to San Antonio | December 7–15, 2023 | 9 | — |
| SAT→ATL San Antonio to Atlanta | December 7–15, 2023 | 9 | — |
| JFK→RSW New York to Fort Myers | November 27, 2023 – December 6, 2023 | 10 | — |
| LAX→ATL Los Angeles to Atlanta | September 5, 2023 – October 31, 2023 | 54 | — |
| MSP→LAX Minneapolis to Los Angeles | July 10, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 32 | — |
| RDU→ATL Raleigh–Durham to Atlanta | July 1–9, 2023 | 7 | — |
The figures above describe only TPA → ATL, the route DL744 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
28 min late
against a median of 9 min early
Percentiles over 619 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering December 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2605 | Delta Air Lines | 88.5% | 8 min early | 762 |
| DL1486 | Delta Air Lines | 87.9% | 6 min early | 662 |
| DL744 this flight | Delta Air Lines | 85.3% | 9 min early | 619 |
| DL1227 | Delta Air Lines | 83.3% | 8 min early | 1,155 |
| F92911 | Frontier Airlines | 80.4% | 9 min early | 657 |
| DL1099 | Delta Air Lines | 79.3% | 7 min early | 1,128 |
| DL1587 | Delta Air Lines | 76.5% | 4 min early | 1,062 |
| DL1525 | Delta Air Lines | 75.5% | 7 min early | 984 |
| DL1720 | Delta Air Lines | 75.2% | 6 min early | 728 |
Among the 9 departures listed, DL744 has the 3rd highest on-time rate, 3.2 points behind the best. 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 619 records of DL744 operating TPA → ATL, 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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