Flight number record
DL 2002
Delta Air Lines · Denver to Los Angeles
- Route
- DEN → LAX
- Departs
- 07:25
- Flights
- 267
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2002, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2002 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 267 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2002's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 122 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 266 completed flights
Avg delay
114 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.37%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 267 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 2002 flies
DL 2002 flies DEN to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:25, used on 55 of 267 flights, with 06:25 (41 flights) and 06:15 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 07:2555 flights20.6%
- Departs 06:2541 flights15.4%
- Departs 06:1534 flights12.7%
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 07:25 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2002 runs level with that at 89.5%. 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 2002 next to DEN to LAX
Every carrier on DEN to LAX combined arrived on time 78.7% of the time across 7,708 flights, so DL 2002 is 11 points ahead of it. Delta flew 746 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2002thin sample | 267 | 89.5% | 114 min | 0.37% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on DEN–LAX | 746 | 81.2% | 101 min | 1.34% | B |
| All carriers on DEN–LAX | 7,708 | 78.7% | 63 min | 0.53% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2002 quarter by quarter
DL 2002 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 84.6%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 67 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights89.1%
- Jan–Mar 20264 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights84.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.9%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2002 did best on Friday at 97.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 76.3%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2002 runs when it is late
DL 2002 often beats the schedule: 96 of 266 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 28 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early96 flights36.1%
- Within 15 min142 flights53.4%
- 15–29 min late10 flights3.8%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.8%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 266 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 22 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2002
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 July 2026, 9 hours 57 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 July 2026 | 9 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 September 2025 | 9 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 June 2026 | 6 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 October 2025 | 6 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 May 2026 | 4 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2002 runs late
Carrier accounts for 67% of the 3,190 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 67%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 67%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,128 of the 3,190 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,190 delay minutes reported on DL 2002.
Cancellations are rare at 0.37%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.0% 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 862 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.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including CHS to MSP (20), MSP to CHS (20) and LAX to SJC (5), but none flew often enough under DL 2002 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to LAX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 267 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 2002
For a booking, DL 2002 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.5% on time and 0.37% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to LAX, every carrier and departure
- LAX to DEN, the return direction
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- United Airlines 1195 on the same route82.5%
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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.