Flight number record
DL 2495
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Omaha
- Route
- ATL → OMA
- Departs
- 22:38
- Flights
- 251
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2495, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2495 lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 251 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 241 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.79%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
6.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 251 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 2495 flies
DL 2495 flies ATL to OMA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:38, used on 54 of 251 flights, with 22:32 (37 flights) and 22:45 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 22:3854 flights21.5%
- Departs 22:3237 flights14.7%
- Departs 22:4536 flights14.3%
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 22:38 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2495 runs 10 points better at 80.5%. 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 2495 next to ATL to OMA
Every carrier on ATL to OMA combined arrived on time 80.0% of the time across 1,784 flights, so DL 2495 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,726 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2495thin sample | 251 | 80.5% | 67 min | 2.79% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–OMA | 1,726 | 80.8% | 61 min | 1.45% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–OMA | 1,784 | 80.0% | 62 min | 1.40% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2495 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2495 held fairly steady: 78.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 78.4% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 87.3% in Jan–Mar 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 202592 flights78.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.4%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights87.3%
- Apr–Jun 20261 flights—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2495 did best on Friday at 91.2% on time and worst on Thursday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2495 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 53% of the 3,134 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.
- 53%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 3,134 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 35 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 3,134 delay minutes reported on DL 2495.
Cancellations run at 2.79%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 821 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.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including ROC to DTW (24) and XNA to DTW (1), but none flew often enough under DL 2495 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to OMA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 251 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 2495
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2495: 2.79% of its 251 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to OMA, every carrier and departure
- OMA to ATL, the return direction
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.