Flight number record
DL 2471
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Kansas City
- Route
- ATL → MCI
- Departs
- 08:20
- Flights
- 312
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2471, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2471 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 40 minutes. That rests on 312 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2471's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 151 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 304 completed flights
Avg delay
39 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.24%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
0.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 312 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 2471 flies
DL 2471 flies ATL to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:20, used on 96 of 312 flights, with 08:05 (51 flights) and 08:15 (51 flights) next.
- Departs 08:2096 flights30.8%
- Departs 08:0551 flights16.3%
- Departs 08:1551 flights16.3%
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 08:20 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2471 runs 9 points better at 92.4%. 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 2471 next to ATL to MCI
Every carrier on ATL to MCI combined arrived on time 82.6% of the time across 3,246 flights, so DL 2471 is 10 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,707 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2471thin sample | 312 | 92.4% | 39 min | 2.24% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MCI | 2,707 | 84.0% | 60 min | 1.33% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–MCI | 3,246 | 82.6% | 59 min | 1.14% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2471 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2471 held fairly steady: 90.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.3% in Jan–Mar 2026, 94.1% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 96.2% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights90.9%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights87.3%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights94.1%
- Jul–Sep 202653 flights96.2%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2471 ranged from 85.7% on Tuesday to 95.7% on Thursday. With about 45 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2471 runs when it is late
The 23 late arrivals split 9 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 2 an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early44 flights14.5%
- Within 15 min237 flights78.0%
- 15–29 min late9 flights3.0%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.9%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.7%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 304 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 17 of 304 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 2471
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 June 2026, 1 hour 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 June 2026 | 1 hour 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 November 2025 | 1 hour 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 March 2026 | 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 56 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 3 December 2025 | 48 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2471 runs late
Carrier accounts for 57% of the 889 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Carrier
- 38%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 2%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 510 of the 889 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 889 delay minutes reported on DL 2471.
Cancellations sit at 2.24% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.32%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 0.7% 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.
The 692 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.
DL 2471 is not only a ATL to MCI flight. It also flew MCI to ATL (283 flights, 93.5% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 312 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCI to ATLthin sample | 283 | 93.5% | 68 min | 2.12% | A |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2471
For a booking, read DL 2471 as 92.4% on time with 2.24% cancelled over 312 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- ATL to MCI, every carrier and departure
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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.