Flight number record
DL 2424
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Traverse City
- Route
- DTW → TVC
- Departs
- 22:50
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2424, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2424 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
9.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% 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 2424 flies
DL 2424 flies DTW to TVC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:50, used on 79 of 364 flights, with 21:45 (62 flights) and 21:59 (60 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 22:5079 flights21.7%
- Departs 21:4562 flights17.0%
- Departs 21:5960 flights16.5%
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 22:50 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2424 runs 5 points better at 75.4%. 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 2424 next to DTW to TVC
Every carrier on DTW to TVC combined arrived on time 75.9% of the time across 1,079 flights, so DL 2424 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2424thin sample | 364 | 75.4% | 63 min | 1.92% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–TVC | 378 | 75.2% | 64 min | 1.85% | B |
| All carriers on DTW–TVC | 1,079 | 75.9% | 76 min | 2.13% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2424 quarter by quarter
DL 2424 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 69.6%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 91 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 flights69.6%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.5%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights79.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights70.8%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2424 did best on Friday at 86.5% on time and worst on Thursday at 63.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
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 5,515 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, 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 2,226 of the 5,515 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,515 delay minutes reported on DL 2424.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% 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. 9.2% 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.
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 75.4% 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
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.