Flight number record

DL 2316

Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Nashville

Route: DTW → BNA
Departs: 16:14
Flights: 331
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2316, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2316 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 55 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 331 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2316 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 50 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 325 completed flights

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.21%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 331 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 2 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 2316 flies

DL 2316 flies DTW to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:14, used on 54 of 331 flights, with 16:20 (45 flights) and 16:00 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:1454 flights16.3%
Departs 16:2045 flights13.6%
Departs 16:0041 flights12.4%

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 16:14 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2316 runs level with that at 72.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2316 next to DTW to BNA

Every carrier on DTW to BNA combined arrived on time 78.7% of the time across 2,417 flights, so DL 2316 is 6 points behind it. Delta flew 1,403 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 9 points.

DL 2316 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2316thin sample	331	72.6%	53 min	1.21%	C
All Delta Air Lines on DTW–BNA	1,403	79.5%	61 min	1.85%	B
All carriers on DTW–BNA	2,417	78.7%	54 min	1.37%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2316 quarter by quarter

DL 2316 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 65.0%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 83 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 202591 flights80.9%
Oct–Dec 202582 flights65.0%
Jan–Mar 202672 flights70.4%
Apr–Jun 202686 flights72.9%

Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2316 did best on Thursday at 82.0% on time and worst on Friday at 59.2%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2316 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 4,754 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
36%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
National Airspace System
24%
Extreme weather
7%

The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, 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 1,724 of the 4,754 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,754 delay minutes reported on DL 2316.

Cancellations sit at 1.21% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.60%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

DL 2316 is not only a DTW to BNA flight. It also flew BNA to DTW (321 flights, 75.9% 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. 331 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2316
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
BNA to DTWthin sample	321	75.9%	57 min	1.56%	B

What to do with this

Booking DL 2316

For a booking, DL 2316 is one of the weaker ways to fly DTW to BNA: 6 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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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