Flight number record
DL 2681
Delta Air Lines · Madison to Atlanta
- Route
- MSN → ATL
- Departs
- 11:07
- Flights
- 346
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2681, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2681 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 an hour and a half. That rests on 346 flights, with a median arrival 21 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2681's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 133 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.73%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 346 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 21 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 2681 flies
DL 2681 flies MSN to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:07, used on 49 of 346 flights, with 11:26 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 11:0749 flights14.2%
- Departs 11:2636 flights10.4%
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 11:07 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2681 runs 12 points better at 90.6%. 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 2681 next to MSN to ATL
Every carrier on MSN to ATL combined arrived on time 89.6% of the time across 1,030 flights, so DL 2681 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2681thin sample | 346 | 90.6% | 86 min | 1.73% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSN–ATL | 1,030 | 89.6% | 102 min | 2.14% | A |
| All carriers on MSN–ATL | 1,030 | 89.6% | 102 min | 2.14% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2681 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2681 held fairly steady: 91.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 89.9% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.7% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202522 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights91.9%
- Jan–Mar 202683 flights91.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.7%
Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2681 did best on Wednesday at 98.0% on time and worst on Friday at 84.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2681 runs when it is late
DL 2681 often beats the schedule: 223 of 339 completed flights, 66%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 32 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early223 flights65.8%
- Within 15 min84 flights24.8%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.9%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.8%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 339 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 41 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2681
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 December 2025, 11 hours 10 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 December 2025 | 11 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 June 2026 | 4 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 August 2026 | 4 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 3 hours 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 22 June 2026 | 2 hours | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2681 runs late
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 2,757 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
34% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,757 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. The split is drawn from 2,757 delay minutes reported on DL 2681.
Cancellations sit at 1.73% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.2% 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.
The 707 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.
DL 2681 is not only a MSN to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to MSN (340 flights, 86.0% 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. 346 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 MSNthin sample | 340 | 86.0% | 40 min | 1.18% | A |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2681
For a booking, read DL 2681 as 90.6% on time with 1.73% cancelled over 346 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
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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.