Flight number record

DL 2338

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Norfolk

Route: ATL → ORF
Departs: 22:45
Flights: 341
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2338, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2338 lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 341 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

On time

79.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 334 completed flights

Avg delay

57 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.47%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 341 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 88 of 341 flights, with 22:53 (36 flights) and 23:03 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:4588 flights25.8%
Departs 22:5336 flights10.6%
Departs 23:0335 flights10.3%

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 22:45 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2338 runs 9 points better at 79.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2338 next to ATL to ORF

Every carrier on ATL to ORF combined arrived on time 79.0% of the time across 2,919 flights, so DL 2338 is about level with it. Delta flew 2,701 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

DL 2338 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2338thin sample	341	79.0%	57 min	1.47%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–ORF	2,701	79.1%	55 min	1.48%	B
All carriers on ATL–ORF	2,919	79.0%	56 min	1.47%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2338 quarter by quarter

DL 2338 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 89.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 72.5%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 85 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 202592 flights72.5%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights73.0%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights89.4%
Apr–Jun 202670 flights82.6%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2338 did best on Wednesday at 91.7% on time and worst on Monday at 65.3%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2338 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 43% of the 3,998 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
43%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
National Airspace System
22%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, 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 1,726 of the 3,998 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,998 delay minutes reported on DL 2338.

Cancellations sit at 1.47% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.59%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.0% 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 about an hour, 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

Every one of the 341 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. 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.

What to do with this

Booking DL 2338

For a booking, read DL 2338 as 79.0% on time with 1.47% cancelled over 341 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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