Flight number record

DL 2302

Delta Air Lines · Cincinnati to Atlanta

Route: CVG → ATL
Departs: 07:05
Flights: 297
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2302, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2302 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 297 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2302's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 125 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

90.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 294 completed flights

Avg delay

54 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.67%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 297 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2302 flies

DL 2302 flies CVG to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:05, used on 63 of 297 flights, with 07:21 (36 flights) and 07:06 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:0563 flights21.2%
Departs 07:2136 flights12.1%
Departs 07:0635 flights11.8%

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 07:05 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2302 runs level with that at 90.1%. 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 2302 next to CVG to ATL

Every carrier on CVG to ATL combined arrived on time 86.4% of the time across 3,017 flights, so DL 2302 is 4 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,729 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 9 points.

DL 2302 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2302thin sample	297	90.1%	54 min	0.67%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on CVG–ATL	2,729	87.3%	73 min	1.21%	A
All carriers on CVG–ATL	3,017	86.4%	75 min	1.23%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2302 quarter by quarter

DL 2302 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.5% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 85.6%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 74 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 202586 flights96.5%
Oct–Dec 202539 flights87.2%
Jan–Mar 202681 flights89.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.6%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2302 ranged from 84.8% on Saturday to 95.5% on Wednesday. With about 42 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2302 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 1,555 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
50%
National Airspace System
31%
Late-arriving aircraft
18%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, 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 779 of the 1,555 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,555 delay minutes reported on DL 2302.

Cancellations are rare at 0.67%, 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

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 297 flights under DL 2302 in the data flew CVG 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. 297 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 2302

For a booking, DL 2302 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.1% on time and 0.67% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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