Flight number record

DL 2162

Delta Air Lines · Birmingham to Atlanta

Route: BHM → ATL
Departs: 05:20
Flights: 300
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2162, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2162 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 300 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2162's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 173 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

94.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 295 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.67%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 300 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 2162 flies

DL 2162 flies BHM to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:20, used on 144 of 300 flights, with 05:16 (41 flights) and 05:30 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:20144 flights48.0%
Departs 05:1641 flights13.7%
Departs 05:3035 flights11.7%

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 05:20 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2162 runs 6 points better at 94.9%. 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 2162 next to BHM to ATL

Every carrier on BHM to ATL combined arrived on time 88.3% of the time across 3,306 flights, so DL 2162 is 7 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 13 points.

DL 2162 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2162thin sample	300	94.9%	65 min	1.67%	A
All Delta Air Lines on BHM–ATL	3,306	88.3%	89 min	1.72%	A
All carriers on BHM–ATL	3,306	88.3%	89 min	1.72%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2162 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2162 held fairly steady: 98.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 93.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 92.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 94.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights98.9%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights93.3%
Jan–Mar 202681 flights92.4%
Apr–Jun 202635 flights94.1%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2162 ranged from 91.1% on Tuesday to 97.7% on Thursday. With about 43 flights behind each day, a spread of 7 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2162 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 57% of the 972 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
57%
National Airspace System
31%
Late-arriving aircraft
12%

The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, 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 554 of the 972 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 972 delay minutes reported on DL 2162.

Cancellations sit at 1.67% 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 2.0% 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.

Every one of the 300 flights under DL 2162 in the data flew BHM to ATL. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 300 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 2162

For a booking, read DL 2162 as 94.9% on time with 1.67% cancelled over 300 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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