Flight number record
DL 2002
Delta Air Lines · Denver to Los Angeles
- Route
- DEN → LAX
- Departs
- 06:15
- Flights
- 267
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. 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 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 107 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 264 completed flights
Avg delay
107 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.12%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 267 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Schedule
When DL 2002 flies
DL 2002 flies DEN to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:15, used on 69 of 267 flights, with 07:25 (55 flights) and 06:45 (47 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:1569 flights25.8%
- Departs 07:2555 flights20.6%
- Departs 06:4547 flights17.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 06:15 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 88.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
DL 2002 next to DEN to LAX
Every carrier on DEN to LAX combined arrived on time 79.0% of the time across 7,721 flights, so DL 2002 is 9 points ahead of it. Delta flew 746 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2002thin sample | 267 | 88.3% | 107 min | 1.12% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on DEN–LAX | 746 | 80.5% | 89 min | 1.47% | B |
| All carriers on DEN–LAX | 7,721 | 79.0% | 62 min | 0.51% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2002 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2002 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 89.1% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 84.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights89.1%
- Jan–Mar 20264 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights84.6%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2002 did best on Monday at 94.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 76.3%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2002 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 68% of the 3,325 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 68%Carrier
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 68%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,249 of the 3,325 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,325 delay minutes reported on DL 2002.
Cancellations sit at 1.12% against a national 1.81%, 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 4.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
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: 88.3% on time and 1.12% 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
- United Airlines 1638 on the same route91.2%
- United Airlines 1013 on the same route86.3%
- United Airlines 405 on the same route91.0%
- United Airlines 2240 on the same route75.9%
- Frontier Airlines 4345 on the same route71.3%
- Frontier Airlines 2341 on the same route89.3%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.