Flight number record
DL 2076
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Phoenix
- Route
- DTW → PHX
- Departs
- 20:18
- Flights
- 345
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2076, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2076 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 345 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
Key figures
On time
73.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 345 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2076 flies
DL 2076 flies DTW to PHX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:18, used on 66 of 345 flights, with 20:15 (54 flights) and 20:25 (49 flights) next.
- Departs 20:1866 flights19.1%
- Departs 20:1554 flights15.7%
- Departs 20:2549 flights14.2%
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 20:18 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2076 runs 4 points better at 73.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2076 next to DTW to PHX
Every carrier on DTW to PHX combined arrived on time 75.9% of the time across 2,374 flights, so DL 2076 is 2 points behind it. Delta flew 1,333 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2076thin sample | 345 | 73.7% | 60 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–PHX | 1,333 | 74.6% | 64 min | 0.68% | C+ |
| All carriers on DTW–PHX | 2,374 | 75.9% | 84 min | 0.80% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2076 quarter by quarter
DL 2076 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 83.1% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 63.2%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 69 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 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights63.2%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights83.1%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights70.2%
- Jul–Sep 202654 flights76.9%
Scale runs 55% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2076 did best on Wednesday at 77.1% on time and worst on Friday at 64.7%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2076 runs when it is late
The 90 late arrivals split 33 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 32 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early59 flights17.3%
- Within 15 min193 flights56.4%
- 15–29 min late33 flights9.6%
- 30–59 min late25 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late22 flights6.4%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 342 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
22 of 91 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 21 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at PHX.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2076
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 December 2025, 3 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 December 2025 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 July 2026 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 July 2026 | 3 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 July 2026 | 3 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 November 2025 | 2 hours 52 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2076 runs late
Carrier accounts for 44% of the 5,369 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Carrier
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 2%Security
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,386 of the 5,369 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,369 delay minutes reported on DL 2076.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 1,671 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including PHX to DTW (77), but none flew often enough under DL 2076 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DTW to PHX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 345 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 2076
For a booking, read DL 2076 as 73.7% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 345 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- DTW to PHX, every carrier and departure
- PHX to DTW, the return direction
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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.