Flight number record

DL 2471

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Kansas City

Route: ATL → MCI
Departs: 08:20
Flights: 307
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 307 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2471's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 144 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

92.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 299 completed flights

Avg delay

44 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.28%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 307 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 2471 flies

DL 2471 flies ATL to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:20, used on 91 of 307 flights, with 08:15 (51 flights) and 08:05 (51 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:2091 flights29.6%
Departs 08:1551 flights16.6%
Departs 08:0551 flights16.6%

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 08:20 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2471 runs 8 points better at 92.0%. 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 2471 next to ATL to MCI

Every carrier on ATL to MCI combined arrived on time 82.8% of the time across 3,281 flights, so DL 2471 is 9 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,758 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

DL 2471 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2471thin sample	307	92.0%	44 min	2.28%	A
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MCI	2,758	84.6%	57 min	1.38%	B
All carriers on ATL–MCI	3,281	82.8%	58 min	1.19%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2471 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2471 held fairly steady: 94.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 94.1% in Apr–Jun 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 202574 flights94.6%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights90.9%
Jan–Mar 202666 flights87.3%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights94.1%

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 44 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.

Delay causes

Why DL 2471 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 65% of the 1,045 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.

Carrier
65%
National Airspace System
32%
Late-arriving aircraft
2%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, 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 684 of the 1,045 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,045 delay minutes reported on DL 2471.

Cancellations sit at 2.28% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.33%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.0% 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.

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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

DL 2471 is not only a ATL to MCI flight. It also flew MCI to ATL (278 flights, 93.4% 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. 307 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2471
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MCI to ATLthin sample	278	93.4%	72 min	2.16%	A

What to do with this

Booking DL 2471

For a booking, read DL 2471 as 92.0% on time with 2.28% cancelled over 307 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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