Flight number record

DL 2076

Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Phoenix

Route: DTW → PHX
Departs: 20:18
Flights: 337
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 337 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2076 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 63 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 335 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.30%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 337 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

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 337 flights, with 20:15 (54 flights) and 20:55 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:1866 flights19.6%
Departs 20:1554 flights16.0%
Departs 20:5549 flights14.5%

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 20:18 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2076 runs level with that at 71.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2076 next to DTW to PHX

Every carrier on DTW to PHX combined arrived on time 76.6% of the time across 2,425 flights, so DL 2076 is 5 points behind it. Delta flew 1,333 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.7% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 10 points.

DL 2076 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2076thin sample	337	71.3%	62 min	0.30%	C+
All Delta Air Lines on DTW–PHX	1,333	74.7%	64 min	0.53%	C+
All carriers on DTW–PHX	2,425	76.6%	80 min	0.74%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 84 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 202576 flights68.0%
Oct–Dec 202588 flights63.2%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights83.1%
Apr–Jun 202684 flights70.2%

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2076 did best on Tuesday at 78.0% on time and worst on Friday at 64.0%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2076 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 52% of the 5,936 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.

Carrier
52%
Late-arriving aircraft
24%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
2%
Security
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, 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 3,104 of the 5,936 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,936 delay minutes reported on DL 2076.

Cancellations are rare at 0.30%, below the national 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. 337 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, DL 2076 is one of the weaker ways to fly DTW to PHX: 5 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

Where to go next

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.

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