Flight number record
DL 2352
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Charlotte
- Route
- DTW → CLT
- Departs
- 19:45
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2352, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2352 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2352 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 55 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.37%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
10.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When DL 2352 flies
DL 2352 flies DTW to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:45, used on 117 of 364 flights, with 20:00 (88 flights) and 19:50 (58 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 19:45117 flights32.1%
- Departs 20:0088 flights24.2%
- Departs 19:5058 flights15.9%
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 19:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2352 runs 4 points better at 72.1%. 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 2352 next to DTW to CLT
Every carrier on DTW to CLT combined arrived on time 83.8% of the time across 3,537 flights, so DL 2352 is 12 points behind it. Delta flew 1,345 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2352thin sample | 364 | 72.1% | 79 min | 1.37% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–CLT | 1,345 | 82.3% | 72 min | 1.49% | B |
| All carriers on DTW–CLT | 3,537 | 83.8% | 87 min | 1.70% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2352 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2352 held fairly steady: 68.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 74.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 69.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 76.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights68.5%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights74.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights69.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.4%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2352 did best on Saturday at 81.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2352 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 7,942 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.
- 47%Carrier
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 7,942 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 38 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 7,942 delay minutes reported on DL 2352.
Cancellations sit at 1.37% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 500 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 364 flights under DL 2352 in the data flew DTW to CLT. 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. 364 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 2352
For a booking, DL 2352 is one of the weaker ways to fly DTW to CLT: 12 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.
Related
Where to go next
- DTW to CLT, every carrier and departure
- CLT to DTW, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1429 on the same route83.9%
- Delta Air Lines 2481 on the same route87.9%
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.