Flight number record
DL 2626
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Cedar Rapids
- Route
- ATL → CID
- Departs
- 21:15
- Flights
- 348
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2626, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2626 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 55 minutes on average. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 341 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.72%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 348 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 2626 flies
DL 2626 flies ATL to CID without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:15, used on 77 of 348 flights, with 20:10 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 21:1577 flights22.1%
- Departs 20:1035 flights10.1%
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 21:15 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2626 runs 6 points better at 76.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2626 next to ATL to CID
Every carrier on ATL to CID combined arrived on time 75.6% of the time across 367 flights, so DL 2626 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2626thin sample | 348 | 76.0% | 55 min | 1.72% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–CID | 367 | 75.6% | 71 min | 1.63% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–CID | 367 | 75.6% | 71 min | 1.63% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2626 quarter by quarter
DL 2626 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 68.9%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 70 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights73.4%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights78.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights68.9%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2626 did best on Tuesday at 84.0% on time and worst on Friday at 65.3%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2626 runs when it is late
The 82 late arrivals split 32 under half an hour, 29 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early55 flights16.1%
- Within 15 min204 flights59.8%
- 15–29 min late32 flights9.4%
- 30–59 min late29 flights8.5%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights2.9%
- 2+ hours late11 flights3.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 341 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 61 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 24 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at CID.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2626
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 November 2025, 5 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2025 | 5 hours 3 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 20 July 2026 | 3 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 May 2026 | 2 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 July 2026 | 2 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2626 runs late
Carrier accounts for 44% of the 4,492 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Carrier
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,970 of the 4,492 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,492 delay minutes reported on DL 2626.
Cancellations sit at 1.72% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 694 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 348 flights under DL 2626 in the data flew ATL to CID. 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. 348 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 2626
For a booking, read DL 2626 as 76.0% on time with 1.72% cancelled over 348 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.