Flight number record
DL 2168
Delta Air Lines · Key West to Atlanta
- Route
- EYW → ATL
- Departs
- 18:18
- Flights
- 341
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2168, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2168 lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 341 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2168's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 45 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 335 completed flights
Avg delay
96 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.47%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 341 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2168 flies
DL 2168 flies EYW to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:18, used on 48 of 341 flights, with 18:10 (43 flights) and 18:06 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 18:1848 flights14.1%
- Departs 18:1043 flights12.6%
- Departs 18:0636 flights10.6%
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 18:18 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2168 runs 14 points better at 81.8%. 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 2168 next to EYW to ATL
Every carrier on EYW to ATL combined arrived on time 86.1% of the time across 1,460 flights, so DL 2168 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2168thin sample | 341 | 81.8% | 96 min | 1.47% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on EYW–ATL | 1,460 | 86.1% | 102 min | 1.85% | A |
| All carriers on EYW–ATL | 1,460 | 86.1% | 102 min | 1.85% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2168 quarter by quarter
DL 2168 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 90.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 61.2%, a swing of 29 points on roughly 68 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 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights87.2%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights78.2%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights90.4%
- Jul–Sep 202650 flights61.2%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 2168 did best on Wednesday at 91.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 72.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2168 runs when it is late
DL 2168 often beats the schedule: 168 of 335 completed flights, 50%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 61 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 28 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early168 flights50.1%
- Within 15 min106 flights31.6%
- 15–29 min late13 flights3.9%
- 30–59 min late20 flights6.0%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights6.3%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 335 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
22 of 80 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2168
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 November 2025, 17 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 November 2025 | 17 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 January 2026 | 14 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 January 2026 | 5 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 November 2025 | 4 hours 40 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 22 May 2026 | 2 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2168 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 5,841 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,841 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 31 to one. The split is drawn from 5,841 delay minutes reported on DL 2168.
Cancellations sit at 1.47% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.4% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 646 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 2168 is not only a EYW to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to EYW (341 flights, 78.0% 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. 341 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL to EYWthin sample | 341 | 78.0% | 67 min | 1.17% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2168
For a booking, read DL 2168 as 81.8% on time with 1.47% cancelled over 341 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.