Flight number record
DL 2626
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Cedar Rapids
- Route
- ATL → CID
- Departs
- 21:15
- Flights
- 348
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.44%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
6.7%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 348 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 2 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 2626 flies
DL 2626 flies ATL to CID without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:15, used on 49 of 348 flights, with 21:50 (36 flights) and 21:39 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 21:1549 flights14.1%
- Departs 21:5036 flights10.3%
- Departs 21:3935 flights10.1%
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 21:15 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2626 runs 6 points better at 76.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
DL 2626 next to ATL to CID
Every carrier on ATL to CID combined arrived on time 76.3% of the time across 367 flights, so DL 2626 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2626thin sample | 348 | 76.6% | 56 min | 1.44% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–CID | 367 | 76.3% | 73 min | 1.36% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–CID | 367 | 76.3% | 73 min | 1.36% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2626 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2626 held fairly steady: 79.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 73.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 78.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 75.0% 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 202592 flights79.3%
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights73.4%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights78.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.0%
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2626 did best on Tuesday at 90.2% on time and worst on Friday at 65.3%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2626 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 44% of the 4,506 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.
- 44%Carrier
- 27%National Airspace System
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 7%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, 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 1,986 of the 4,506 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,506 delay minutes reported on DL 2626.
Cancellations sit at 1.44% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, 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. 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 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 76.6% on time with 1.44% 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.