Flight number record
DL 2162
Delta Air Lines · Birmingham to Atlanta
- Route
- BHM → ATL
- Departs
- 05:20
- Flights
- 267
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 267 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 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 170 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 262 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.87%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 267 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 267 flights, with 05:24 (34 flights) and 05:06 (29 flights) next.
- Departs 05:20144 flights53.9%
- Departs 05:2434 flights12.7%
- Departs 05:0629 flights10.9%
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 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 5 points better at 94.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2162 next to BHM to ATL
Every carrier on BHM to ATL combined arrived on time 87.2% of the time across 3,371 flights, so DL 2162 is 7 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2162thin sample | 267 | 94.3% | 84 min | 1.87% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on BHM–ATL | 3,371 | 87.2% | 83 min | 1.72% | A |
| All carriers on BHM–ATL | 3,371 | 87.2% | 83 min | 1.72% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2162 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2162 held fairly steady: 100.0% 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 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights93.3%
- Jan–Mar 202681 flights92.4%
- Apr–Jun 202635 flights94.1%
- Jul–Sep 202629 flights—
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2162 ranged from 90.0% on Tuesday to 100.0% on Saturday. With about 38 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2162 runs when it is late
DL 2162 often beats the schedule: 154 of 262 completed flights, 59%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 15 late arrivals split 4 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early154 flights58.8%
- Within 15 min93 flights35.5%
- 15–29 min late4 flights1.5%
- 30–59 min late4 flights1.5%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.5%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 262 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 14 of 262 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2162
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 August 2026, 5 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2026 | 5 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 May 2026 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 October 2025 | 2 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 1 hour 59 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 26 November 2025 | 1 hour 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2162 runs late
Carrier accounts for 67% of the 1,263 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 67%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 9%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 67%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 845 of the 1,263 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,263 delay minutes reported on DL 2162.
Cancellations sit at 1.87% against a national 1.89%, 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 2.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including ATL to XNA (1), but none flew often enough under DL 2162 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BHM to ATL 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 2162
For a booking, read DL 2162 as 94.3% on time with 1.87% cancelled over 267 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.