Flight number record
DL 2690
Delta Air Lines · Syracuse to Atlanta
- Route
- SYR → ATL
- Departs
- 18:54
- Flights
- 299
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2690, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2690 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 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 299 flights, with a median arrival 22 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2690's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 80 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 292 completed flights
Avg delay
98 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.34%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 299 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 22 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 2690 flies
DL 2690 flies SYR to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:54, used on 42 of 299 flights, with 19:01 (33 flights) and 18:17 (30 flights) next.
- Departs 18:5442 flights14.0%
- Departs 19:0133 flights11.0%
- Departs 18:1730 flights10.0%
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 18:54 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2690 runs 17 points better at 85.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2690 next to SYR to ATL
Every carrier on SYR to ATL combined arrived on time 83.3% of the time across 1,124 flights, so DL 2690 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,096 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2690thin sample | 299 | 85.3% | 98 min | 2.34% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on SYR–ATL | 1,096 | 83.5% | 88 min | 1.92% | B |
| All carriers on SYR–ATL | 1,124 | 83.3% | 87 min | 1.96% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 92.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 70.2%, a swing of 22 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.
- Jul–Sep 202522 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights84.2%
- Jan–Mar 202669 flights87.9%
- Apr–Jun 202681 flights92.6%
- Jul–Sep 202649 flights70.2%
Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2690 did best on Wednesday at 95.6% on time and worst on Friday at 78.7%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2690 runs when it is late
DL 2690 often beats the schedule: 187 of 292 completed flights, 64%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 43 late arrivals split 9 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early187 flights64.0%
- Within 15 min62 flights21.2%
- 15–29 min late9 flights3.1%
- 30–59 min late14 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights4.1%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 292 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 65 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 24 still arrived on time. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2690
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 June 2026, 16 hours 25 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 18 June 2026 | 16 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 June 2026 | 5 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 August 2026 | 5 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 November 2025 | 4 hours | Carrier |
| 24 August 2026 | 3 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2690 runs late
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 4,225 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,225 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 41 to one. The split is drawn from 4,225 delay minutes reported on DL 2690.
Cancellations sit at 2.34% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
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.
DL 2690 is not only a SYR to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to SYR (299 flights, 79.9% 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. 299 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 SYRthin sample | 299 | 79.9% | 59 min | 1.67% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2690
For a booking, read DL 2690 as 85.3% on time with 2.34% cancelled over 299 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.