Flight number record
DL 2441
Delta Air Lines · Cincinnati to Atlanta
- Route
- CVG → ATL
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 358
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 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 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 176 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
95.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.56%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
1.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 358 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
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 206 of 358 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:00206 flights57.5%
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 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.
Against the route
DL 2441 next to CVG to ATL
Every carrier on CVG to ATL combined arrived on time 86.4% of the time across 3,017 flights, so DL 2441 is 9 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,729 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2441thin sample | 358 | 95.2% | 53 min | 0.56% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on CVG–ATL | 2,729 | 87.3% | 73 min | 1.21% | A |
| All carriers on CVG–ATL | 3,017 | 86.4% | 75 min | 1.23% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2441 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2441 held fairly steady: 97.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 95.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 93.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights97.8%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.5%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights95.2%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights93.3%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2441 ranged from 90.2% 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.
Delay causes
Why DL 2441 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 68% of the 902 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.
- 68%Carrier
- 29%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 68%, 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 615 of the 902 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 902 delay minutes reported on DL 2441.
Cancellations are rare at 0.56%, below the national 1.81% 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 8.1% 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.
Related
Where to go next
- CVG to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to CVG, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2302 on the same route90.1%
- Delta Air Lines 1516 on the same route85.9%
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.