Flight number record
DL 2302
Delta Air Lines · Cincinnati to Atlanta
- Route
- CVG → ATL
- Departs
- 07:05
- Flights
- 303
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 55 minutes. That rests on 303 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 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 130 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 300 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.66%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 303 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 55 of 303 flights, with 07:21 (36 flights) and 07:40 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 07:0555 flights18.2%
- Departs 07:2136 flights11.9%
- Departs 07:4032 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 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 90.3%. 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 2302 next to CVG to ATL
Every carrier on CVG to ATL combined arrived on time 85.4% of the time across 3,012 flights, so DL 2302 is 5 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,715 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2302thin sample | 303 | 90.3% | 55 min | 0.66% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on CVG–ATL | 2,715 | 86.4% | 70 min | 1.22% | A |
| All carriers on CVG–ATL | 3,012 | 85.4% | 73 min | 1.20% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 100.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 85.6%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 61 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 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202539 flights87.2%
- Jan–Mar 202681 flights89.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights95.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2302 ranged from 86.4% on Thursday to 97.7% on Wednesday. With about 43 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2302 runs when it is late
DL 2302 often beats the schedule: 94 of 300 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 17 of the 29 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 6 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early94 flights31.3%
- Within 15 min177 flights59.0%
- 15–29 min late17 flights5.7%
- 30–59 min late6 flights2.0%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.7%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 300 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 14 of 300 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 2302
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 February 2026, 5 hours 16 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 February 2026 | 5 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 April 2026 | 3 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 April 2026 | 2 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 June 2026 | 2 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 March 2026 | 1 hour 35 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2302 runs late
Carrier accounts for 50% of the 1,582 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 790 of the 1,582 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,582 delay minutes reported on DL 2302.
Cancellations are rare at 0.66%, below the national 1.89% 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 8.3% 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.
Every one of the 303 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. 303 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: 90.3% on time and 0.66% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- CVG to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to CVG, the return direction
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- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
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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.