Flight number record

DL 2147

Delta Air Lines · Providence to Atlanta

Route: PVD → ATL
Departs: 13:27
Flights: 255
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2147, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2147 earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 255 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2147's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 242 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.31%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

5.4%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 255 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 2147 flies

DL 2147 flies PVD to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:27, used on 53 of 255 flights, with 13:23 (31 flights) and 13:38 (29 flights) next.

Departs 13:2753 flights20.8%
Departs 13:2331 flights12.2%
Departs 13:3829 flights11.4%

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 13:27 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2147 runs 7 points better at 85.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

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Against the route

DL 2147 next to PVD to ATL

Every carrier on PVD to ATL combined arrived on time 86.1% of the time across 1,162 flights, so DL 2147 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

DL 2147 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2147thin sample	255	85.1%	65 min	4.31%	A−
All Delta Air Lines on PVD–ATL	1,162	86.1%	79 min	2.67%	A
All carriers on PVD–ATL	1,162	86.1%	79 min	2.67%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2147 quarter by quarter

DL 2147 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 91.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 71.2%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 85 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.

Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.1%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights71.2%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2147 ranged from 82.9% on Sunday to 88.2% on Friday. With about 36 flights behind each day, a spread of 5 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2147 runs when it is late

DL 2147 often beats the schedule: 107 of 242 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 36 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.

15+ min early107 flights44.2%
Within 15 min99 flights40.9%
15–29 min late12 flights5.0%
30–59 min late11 flights4.5%
1–2 hours late9 flights3.7%
2+ hours late4 flights1.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 242 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

12 of 41 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2147

The latest arrival of the period was on 11 July 2026, 5 hours 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across July, August, March and February, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of DL 2147 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
11 July 2026	5 hours 53 minutes	Extreme weather
29 July 2026	3 hours 21 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
8 August 2026	2 hours 57 minutes	National Airspace System
28 March 2026	2 hours 6 minutes	Carrier
20 February 2026	1 hour 40 minutes	National Airspace System

Delay causes

Why DL 2147 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 2,322 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
38%
National Airspace System
27%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
Extreme weather
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,322 delay minutes reported on DL 2147.

Cancellations run at 4.31%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 903 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.

DL 2147 is not only a PVD to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to PVD (255 flights, 84.8% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 255 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2147
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ATL to PVDthin sample	255	84.8%	40 min	3.92%	B−

What to do with this

Booking DL 2147

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2147: 4.31% of its 255 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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