Flight number record
DL 2682
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Nashville
- Route
- DTW → BNA
- Departs
- 08:45
- Flights
- 362
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2682, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2682 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 11 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 362 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2682's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 107 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.31%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 362 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2682 flies
DL 2682 flies DTW to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:45, used on 108 of 362 flights, with 08:25 (105 flights) and 08:33 (55 flights) next.
- Departs 08:45108 flights29.8%
- Departs 08:25105 flights29.0%
- Departs 08:3355 flights15.2%
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 08:45 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2682 runs 4 points better at 88.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2682 next to DTW to BNA
Every carrier on DTW to BNA combined arrived on time 78.1% of the time across 2,413 flights, so DL 2682 is 10 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,405 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2682thin sample | 362 | 88.0% | 70 min | 3.31% | A− |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–BNA | 1,405 | 79.9% | 57 min | 1.78% | B |
| All carriers on DTW–BNA | 2,413 | 78.1% | 52 min | 1.33% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2682 quarter by quarter
DL 2682 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.8%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 72 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights81.8%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights88.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2682 did best on Saturday at 97.8% on time and worst on Monday at 81.2%. 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 2682 runs when it is late
DL 2682 often beats the schedule: 120 of 350 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 42 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early120 flights34.3%
- Within 15 min188 flights53.7%
- 15–29 min late15 flights4.3%
- 30–59 min late14 flights4.0%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 34 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2682
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 June 2026, 6 hours 17 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2026 | 6 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 December 2025 | 4 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 December 2025 | 4 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 December 2025 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 March 2026 | 2 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2682 runs late
Carrier accounts for 59% of the 2,937 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 14%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,731 of the 2,937 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,937 delay minutes reported on DL 2682.
Cancellations run at 3.31%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.7% 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 2682 is not only a DTW to BNA flight. It also flew BNA to DTW (349 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. 362 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BNA to DTWthin sample | 349 | 88.5% | 131 min | 3.15% | A− |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2682
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2682: 3.31% of its 362 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DTW to BNA, every carrier and departure
- BNA to DTW, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 2316 on the same route69.4%
- Delta Air Lines 1557 on the same route88.5%
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) delay statistics
- Nashville International (BNA) 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
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.