Flight number record

DL 2441

Delta Air Lines · Cincinnati to Atlanta

Route: CVG → ATL
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 358
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2441, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2441 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 18 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 358 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2441's record is 18 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 179 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

95.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights

Avg delay

45 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.56%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

1.1%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 358 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 2441 flies

DL 2441 flies CVG to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 189 of 358 flights, with 05:34 (49 flights) next.

Departs 06:00189 flights52.8%
Departs 05:3449 flights13.7%

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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2441 runs 6 points better at 95.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

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Against the route

DL 2441 next to CVG to ATL

Every carrier on CVG to ATL combined arrived on time 85.4% of the time across 3,012 flights, so DL 2441 is 10 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,715 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 14 points.

DL 2441 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2441thin sample	358	95.2%	45 min	0.56%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on CVG–ATL	2,715	86.4%	70 min	1.22%	A
All carriers on CVG–ATL	3,012	85.4%	73 min	1.20%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2441 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2441 held fairly steady: 100.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 95.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 93.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 96.8% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202530 flights100.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.5%
Jan–Mar 202685 flights95.2%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights93.3%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights96.8%

Scale runs 85% to 100%.

By weekday, DL 2441 ranged from 90.4% on Monday to 98.1% on Wednesday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2441 runs when it is late

DL 2441 often beats the schedule: 184 of 356 completed flights, 52%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 17 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 4 an hour or more.

15+ min early184 flights51.7%
Within 15 min155 flights43.5%
15–29 min late8 flights2.2%
30–59 min late5 flights1.4%
1–2 hours late3 flights0.8%
2+ hours late1 flights0.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 356 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Only 16 of 356 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2441

The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 2 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).

The latest arrivals of DL 2441 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
16 March 2026	2 hours 6 minutes	National Airspace System
2 June 2026	1 hour 53 minutes	Carrier
1 December 2025	1 hour 16 minutes	Carrier
12 August 2026	1 hour 5 minutes	Carrier
8 March 2026	53 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 2441 runs late

Carrier accounts for 62% of the 763 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
62%
National Airspace System
35%
Extreme weather
3%

35% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 264 minutes out of 763, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 763 delay minutes reported on DL 2441.

Cancellations are rare at 0.56%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

Every one of the 358 flights under DL 2441 in the data flew CVG to ATL. 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. 358 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 2441

For a booking, DL 2441 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 95.2% on time and 0.56% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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