Flight number record
DL 2494
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Panama City
- Route
- ATL → ECP
- Departs
- 19:28
- Flights
- 312
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2494, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2494 lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That rests on 312 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2494's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 301 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.24%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 312 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 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 312 flights, with 18:30 (33 flights) next.
- Departs 19:2841 flights13.1%
- Departs 18:3033 flights10.6%
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 19:28 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2494 runs 14 points better at 81.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2494 next to ATL to ECP
Every carrier on ATL to ECP combined arrived on time 83.2% of the time across 2,421 flights, so DL 2494 is 2 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2494thin sample | 312 | 81.7% | 49 min | 2.24% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–ECP | 2,421 | 83.2% | 61 min | 1.94% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–ECP | 2,421 | 83.2% | 61 min | 1.94% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 2026 at 67.8%, a swing of 23 points on roughly 62 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 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights90.4%
- Jan–Mar 202654 flights80.4%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights82.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights67.8%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 2494 ranged from 78.6% on Saturday to 85.7% on Tuesday. With about 45 flights behind each day, a spread of 7 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2494 runs when it is late
The 55 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 14 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early73 flights24.3%
- Within 15 min173 flights57.5%
- 15–29 min late25 flights8.3%
- 30–59 min late16 flights5.3%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.7%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 301 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 60 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2494
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 July 2026, 3 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2026 | 3 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 July 2026 | 3 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 2 hours 30 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 28 April 2026 | 1 hour 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 August 2026 | 1 hour 49 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2494 runs late
Carrier accounts for 51% of the 2,711 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,392 of the 2,711 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,711 delay minutes reported on DL 2494.
Cancellations sit at 2.24% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.28%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.7% 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.
Every one of the 312 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. 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.
What to do with this
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For a booking, read DL 2494 as 81.7% 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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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.