Flight number record

DL 2554

Delta Air Lines · Hartford to Atlanta

Route: BDL → ATL
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 329
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2554, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2554 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 329 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2554's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 321 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.43%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 329 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 2554 flies

DL 2554 flies BDL to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 139 of 329 flights, with 07:05 (70 flights) and 07:20 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:00139 flights42.2%
Departs 07:0570 flights21.3%
Departs 07:2038 flights11.6%

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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2554 runs 4 points worse at 85.7%. 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 2554 next to BDL to ATL

Every carrier on BDL to ATL combined arrived on time 83.4% of the time across 2,328 flights, so DL 2554 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,212 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

DL 2554 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2554thin sample	329	85.7%	67 min	2.43%	A
All Delta Air Lines on BDL–ATL	2,212	83.9%	73 min	2.03%	B
All carriers on BDL–ATL	2,328	83.4%	73 min	1.98%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2554 quarter by quarter

DL 2554 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.2%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 82 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 202577 flights93.4%
Oct–Dec 202583 flights84.0%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.2%
Apr–Jun 202679 flights85.9%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2554 did best on Thursday at 94.0% on time and worst on Monday at 77.8%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2554 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 71% of the 3,090 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
71%
National Airspace System
26%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 71%, 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 2,184 of the 3,090 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,090 delay minutes reported on DL 2554.

Cancellations sit at 2.43% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.4% 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 859 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.

Every one of the 329 flights under DL 2554 in the data flew BDL to ATL. 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. 329 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 2554

For a booking, read DL 2554 as 85.7% on time with 2.43% cancelled over 329 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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