Flight number record
DL 2682
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Nashville
- Route
- DTW → BNA
- Departs
- 08:25
- Flights
- 362
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. 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 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 109 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 349 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.59%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
3.7%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 362 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Schedule
When DL 2682 flies
DL 2682 flies DTW to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:25, used on 104 of 362 flights, with 08:45 (103 flights) and 08:35 (64 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 08:25104 flights28.7%
- Departs 08:45103 flights28.5%
- Departs 08:3564 flights17.7%
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 08:25 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2682 runs 4 points better at 88.5%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
DL 2682 next to DTW to BNA
Every carrier on DTW to BNA combined arrived on time 78.7% of the time across 2,417 flights, so DL 2682 is 10 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,403 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2682thin sample | 362 | 88.5% | 71 min | 3.59% | A− |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–BNA | 1,403 | 79.5% | 61 min | 1.85% | B |
| All carriers on DTW–BNA | 2,417 | 78.7% | 54 min | 1.37% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | 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 94.4% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.8%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights94.4%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights81.8%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights88.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.5%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2682 did best on Saturday at 97.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 81.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2682 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 63% of the 2,840 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.
- 63%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, 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 1,787 of the 2,840 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,840 delay minutes reported on DL 2682.
Cancellations run at 3.59%, against 1.81% 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 8.1% 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, 88.7% 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 | 88.7% | 130 min | 3.44% | A− |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2682
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2682: 3.59% 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
- Delta Air Lines 2126 on the same route70.6%
- Delta Air Lines 2316 on the same route72.6%
- Delta Air Lines 1557 on the same route86.8%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.