Flight number record
DL 2562
Delta Air Lines · Baltimore to Atlanta
- Route
- BWI → ATL
- Departs
- 08:05
- Flights
- 345
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over 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 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 135 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 336 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.61%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 345 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
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 08:00 (45 flights) and 08:45 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 08:0569 flights20.0%
- Departs 08:0045 flights13.0%
- Departs 08:4541 flights11.9%
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 08:05 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2562 runs 7 points better at 91.1%. 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 2562 next to BWI to ATL
Every carrier on BWI to ATL combined arrived on time 80.6% of the time across 5,415 flights, so DL 2562 is 11 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,824 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2562thin sample | 345 | 91.1% | 74 min | 2.61% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on BWI–ATL | 2,824 | 86.2% | 79 min | 2.05% | A |
| All carriers on BWI–ATL | 5,415 | 80.6% | 70 min | 1.87% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2562 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2562 held fairly steady: 89.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 93.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202575 flights89.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights94.0%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights93.1%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2562 did best on Saturday at 98.0% on time and worst on Monday at 78.3%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2562 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 56% of the 2,223 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.
- 56%Carrier
- 35%National Airspace System
- 9%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, 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 1,235 of the 2,223 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,223 delay minutes reported on DL 2562.
Cancellations run at 2.61%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% 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 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. 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 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: 2.61% of its 345 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over 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
- Delta Air Lines 2950 on the same route94.1%
- Frontier Airlines 2633 on the same route74.7%
- Delta Air Lines 2579 on the same route90.0%
- Delta Air Lines 801 on the same route87.1%
- Delta Air Lines 2711 on the same route83.9%
- Delta Air Lines 2799 on the same route78.3%
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.