Flight number record

DL 2494

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Panama City

Route: ATL → ECP
Departs: 19:28
Flights: 292
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2494, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2494 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 292 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2494's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 55 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 284 completed flights

Avg delay

43 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.40%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 292 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2494 flies

DL 2494 flies ATL to ECP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:28, used on 41 of 292 flights, with 19:41 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:2841 flights14.0%
Departs 19:4131 flights10.6%

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 19:28 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2494 runs 15 points better at 83.1%. 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 2494 next to ATL to ECP

Every carrier on ATL to ECP combined arrived on time 84.0% of the time across 2,426 flights, so DL 2494 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

DL 2494 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2494thin sample	292	83.1%	43 min	2.40%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–ECP	2,426	84.0%	57 min	1.81%	B
All carriers on ATL–ECP	2,426	84.0%	57 min	1.81%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2494 quarter by quarter

DL 2494 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 90.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 77.8%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 73 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 202572 flights77.8%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights90.4%
Jan–Mar 202654 flights80.4%
Apr–Jun 202679 flights82.1%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2494 ranged from 80.0% on Wednesday to 89.5% on Tuesday. With about 42 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 2494 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 2,044 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
47%
Late-arriving aircraft
27%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
10%

The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, 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 958 of the 2,044 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,044 delay minutes reported on DL 2494.

Cancellations sit at 2.40% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.34%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.2% 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 292 flights under DL 2494 in the data flew ATL to ECP. 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. 292 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 2494

For a booking, read DL 2494 as 83.1% on time with 2.40% cancelled over 292 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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