Flight number record
DL 2424
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Traverse City
- Route
- DTW → TVC
- Departs
- 22:50
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2424, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2424 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2424 flies
DL 2424 flies DTW to TVC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:50, used on 72 of 364 flights, with 21:45 (62 flights) and 21:59 (60 flights) next.
- Departs 22:5072 flights19.8%
- Departs 21:4562 flights17.0%
- Departs 21:5960 flights16.5%
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 22:50 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2424 runs 7 points better at 77.0%. 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 2424 next to DTW to TVC
Every carrier on DTW to TVC combined arrived on time 74.1% of the time across 1,062 flights, so DL 2424 is 3 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2424thin sample | 364 | 77.0% | 61 min | 1.92% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–TVC | 369 | 77.3% | 61 min | 1.90% | B |
| All carriers on DTW–TVC | 1,062 | 74.1% | 75 min | 2.17% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2424 quarter by quarter
DL 2424 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 69.4%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 73 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 202592 flights81.5%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights79.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights70.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights69.4%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 2424 did best on Friday at 88.5% on time and worst on Thursday at 69.2%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2424 runs when it is late
DL 2424 often beats the schedule: 91 of 357 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 82 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 33 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early91 flights25.5%
- Within 15 min184 flights51.5%
- 15–29 min late25 flights7.0%
- 30–59 min late24 flights6.7%
- 1–2 hours late27 flights7.6%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 357 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 77 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2424
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 May 2026, 7 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 May 2026 | 7 hours 12 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 March 2026 | 3 hours 44 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 9 July 2026 | 3 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 March 2026 | 2 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 June 2026 | 2 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2424 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 5,008 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,008 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 5,008 delay minutes reported on DL 2424.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
Every one of the 364 flights under DL 2424 in the data flew DTW to TVC. 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 2424
For a booking, read DL 2424 as 77.0% on time with 1.92% cancelled over 364 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- DTW to TVC, every carrier and departure
- TVC to DTW, the return direction
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.