Flight number record
DL 2602
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to New York
- Route
- DTW → LGA
- Departs
- 14:02
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2602, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2602 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.57%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2602 flies
DL 2602 flies DTW to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:02, used on 82 of 364 flights, with 14:03 (49 flights) and 14:05 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 14:0282 flights22.5%
- Departs 14:0349 flights13.5%
- Departs 14:0542 flights11.5%
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 14:02 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2602 runs 3 points better at 74.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2602 next to DTW to LGA
Every carrier on DTW to LGA combined arrived on time 74.7% of the time across 3,862 flights, so DL 2602 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,981 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2602thin sample | 364 | 74.9% | 83 min | 3.57% | C− |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–LGA | 1,981 | 76.4% | 74 min | 4.04% | B− |
| All carriers on DTW–LGA | 3,862 | 74.7% | 76 min | 5.44% | C− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2602 quarter by quarter
DL 2602 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 86.7% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 70.0%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 73 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 202591 flights71.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights70.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights72.7%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2602 did best on Wednesday at 86.3% on time and worst on Monday at 69.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2602 runs when it is late
The 88 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 29 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 32 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early85 flights24.3%
- Within 15 min177 flights50.6%
- 15–29 min late27 flights7.7%
- 30–59 min late29 flights8.3%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights4.6%
- 2+ hours late16 flights4.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 93 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2602
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 July 2026, 9 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2026 | 9 hours 2 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 7 August 2026 | 8 hours 26 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 August 2026 | 7 hours 12 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 June 2026 | 5 hours 44 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 23 June 2026 | 5 hours 2 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2602 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 70% of the 7,303 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 70%National Airspace System
- 23%Carrier
- 7%Late-arriving aircraft
- 0%Extreme weather
70% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 5,091 minutes out of 7,303, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 7,303 delay minutes reported on DL 2602.
Cancellations run at 3.57%, 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
9.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 502 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 364 flights under DL 2602 in the data flew DTW to LGA. 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. 364 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 2602
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2602: 3.57% of its 364 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DTW to LGA, every carrier and departure
- LGA to DTW, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2589 on the same route85.3%
- Delta Air Lines 2603 on the same route72.4%
- Delta Air Lines 1487 on the same route87.9%
- Republic Airways 4477 on the same route85.3%
- Delta Air Lines 2604 on the same route58.7%
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) 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.