Flight number record

DL 2690

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Syracuse

Route: ATL → SYR
Departs: 15:30
Flights: 310
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2690, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2690 lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 310 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2690's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 43 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

81.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 304 completed flights

Avg delay

52 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.94%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 310 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 2690 flies

DL 2690 flies ATL to SYR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:30, used on 36 of 310 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:3036 flights11.6%

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 15:30 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2690 runs 10 points better at 81.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2690 next to ATL to SYR

Every carrier on ATL to SYR combined arrived on time 81.2% of the time across 1,091 flights, so DL 2690 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,046 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 2690 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2690thin sample	310	81.9%	52 min	1.94%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–SYR	1,046	81.6%	52 min	2.39%	B
All carriers on ATL–SYR	1,091	81.2%	51 min	2.47%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2690 quarter by quarter

DL 2690 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 88.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 75.3%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 78 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 202582 flights82.3%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights75.3%
Jan–Mar 202669 flights80.6%
Apr–Jun 202681 flights88.9%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2690 did best on Thursday at 89.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 73.3%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2690 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 42% 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.

Carrier
42%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
National Airspace System
18%
Extreme weather
11%

Extreme weather accounts for 11% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 1.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,840 delay minutes reported on DL 2690.

Cancellations sit at 1.94% against a national 1.81%, 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 4.9% 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.

The 794 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.

DL 2690 is not only a ATL to SYR flight. It also flew SYR to ATL (310 flights, 88.1% 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. 310 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2690
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SYR to ATLthin sample	310	88.1%	94 min	2.58%	A

What to do with this

Booking DL 2690

For a booking, read DL 2690 as 81.9% on time with 1.94% cancelled over 310 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

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.

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