Flight number record
DL 2562
Delta Air Lines · Baltimore to Atlanta
- Route
- BWI → ATL
- Departs
- 08:05
- Flights
- 345
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2562, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2562 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 345 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2562's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 134 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 334 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.19%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 345 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 2562 flies
DL 2562 flies BWI to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:05, used on 69 of 345 flights, with 08:17 (49 flights) and 08:45 (39 flights) next.
- Departs 08:0569 flights20.0%
- Departs 08:1749 flights14.2%
- Departs 08:4539 flights11.3%
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 08:05 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2562 runs 7 points better at 90.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2562 next to BWI to ATL
Every carrier on BWI to ATL combined arrived on time 79.9% of the time across 5,405 flights, so DL 2562 is 11 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,790 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2562thin sample | 345 | 90.7% | 67 min | 3.19% | A− |
| All Delta Air Lines on BWI–ATL | 2,790 | 86.0% | 85 min | 2.11% | A |
| All carriers on BWI–ATL | 5,405 | 79.9% | 70 min | 2.33% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2562 quarter by quarter
DL 2562 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 94.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 82.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 86 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 202522 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights94.0%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights93.1%
- Jul–Sep 202653 flights82.4%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2562 did best on Saturday at 97.5% on time and worst on Monday at 77.1%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2562 runs when it is late
DL 2562 often beats the schedule: 144 of 334 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 31 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early144 flights43.1%
- Within 15 min159 flights47.6%
- 15–29 min late12 flights3.6%
- 30–59 min late4 flights1.2%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.6%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 334 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 27 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2562
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 May 2026, 4 hours 38 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2026 | 4 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 4 hours 2 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 16 August 2026 | 2 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 August 2026 | 1 hour 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 January 2026 | 1 hour 43 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2562 runs late
Carrier accounts for 59% of the 2,068 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Carrier
- 41%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,210 of the 2,068 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,068 delay minutes reported on DL 2562.
Cancellations run at 3.19%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% 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.
The 577 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.
Every one of the 345 flights under DL 2562 in the data flew BWI 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. 345 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 2562
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2562: 3.19% of its 345 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
- BWI to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to BWI, the return direction
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- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
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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.