Flight number record
DL 2650
Delta Air Lines · Richmond to Atlanta
- Route
- RIC → ATL
- Departs
- 12:51
- Flights
- 300
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2650, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2650 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 a little over an hour. That rests on 300 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2650's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 128 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 293 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.33%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 300 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 2650 flies
DL 2650 flies RIC to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:51, used on 36 of 300 flights.
- Departs 12:5136 flights12.0%
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 12:51 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2650 runs 12 points better at 90.1%. 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 2650 next to RIC to ATL
Every carrier on RIC to ATL combined arrived on time 88.5% of the time across 2,668 flights, so DL 2650 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,599 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 89.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2650thin sample | 300 | 90.1% | 68 min | 2.33% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on RIC–ATL | 2,599 | 89.2% | 91 min | 2.00% | A |
| All carriers on RIC–ATL | 2,668 | 88.5% | 93 min | 2.02% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2650 quarter by quarter
DL 2650 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 94.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 83.9%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 75 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.
- Oct–Dec 202557 flights89.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights94.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.9%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2650 did best on Saturday at 95.3% on time and worst on Tuesday at 81.0%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2650 runs when it is late
DL 2650 often beats the schedule: 116 of 293 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 29 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early116 flights39.6%
- Within 15 min148 flights50.5%
- 15–29 min late8 flights2.7%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.4%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 293 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 37 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 12 still arrived on time. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2650
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 5 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across December, June, November, March and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 5 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 June 2026 | 3 hours 35 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 25 November 2025 | 2 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 March 2026 | 2 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 13 July 2026 | 1 hour 40 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2650 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 1,977 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 13%Carrier
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 1,977 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 57 to one. The split is drawn from 1,977 delay minutes reported on DL 2650.
Cancellations sit at 2.33% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.8% 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.
DL 2650 is not only a RIC to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to RIC (296 flights, 88.5% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 300 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL to RICthin sample | 296 | 88.5% | 49 min | 2.70% | A |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2650
For a booking, read DL 2650 as 90.1% on time with 2.33% cancelled over 300 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.