Flight number record
DL 2338
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Norfolk
- Route
- ATL → ORF
- Departs
- 22:45
- Flights
- 302
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2338, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2338 lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 55 minutes on average. That rests on 302 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 296 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.32%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 302 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 2338 flies
DL 2338 flies ATL to ORF without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:45, used on 81 of 302 flights, with 22:53 (36 flights) and 22:47 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 22:4581 flights26.8%
- Departs 22:5336 flights11.9%
- Departs 22:4732 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 22:45 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2338 runs 10 points better at 80.1%. 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 2338 next to ATL to ORF
Every carrier on ATL to ORF combined arrived on time 78.7% of the time across 2,946 flights, so DL 2338 is about level with it. Delta flew 2,687 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.9% on time. 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 2338thin sample | 302 | 80.1% | 55 min | 1.32% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–ORF | 2,687 | 78.9% | 55 min | 1.38% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–ORF | 2,946 | 78.7% | 56 min | 1.46% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2338 quarter by quarter
DL 2338 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 73.0%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 76 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 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights73.0%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights89.4%
- Apr–Jun 202670 flights82.6%
- Jul–Sep 202623 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2338 did best on Wednesday at 97.5% on time and worst on Monday at 70.5%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2338 runs when it is late
The 59 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early38 flights12.8%
- Within 15 min199 flights67.2%
- 15–29 min late26 flights8.8%
- 30–59 min late16 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 296 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 50 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 5 made it up before arrival. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2338
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 November 2025, 5 hours 38 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across November, September, March, October and December, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2025 | 5 hours 38 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 26 September 2025 | 3 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 3 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 October 2025 | 3 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 December 2025 | 1 hour 47 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why DL 2338 runs late
Carrier accounts for 46% of the 3,241 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Carrier
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,504 of the 3,241 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,241 delay minutes reported on DL 2338.
Cancellations sit at 1.32% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.66%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.7% 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 about 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 516 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.
Every one of the 302 flights under DL 2338 in the data flew ATL to ORF. 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. 302 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 2338
For a booking, read DL 2338 as 80.1% on time with 1.32% cancelled over 302 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- ATL to ORF, every carrier and departure
- ORF to ATL, the return direction
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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.