Flight number record
DL 2701
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Little Rock
- Route
- ATL → LIT
- Departs
- 20:10
- Flights
- 277
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2701, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2701 lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 277 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 272 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.81%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 277 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2701 flies
DL 2701 flies ATL to LIT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:10, used on 83 of 277 flights, with 20:59 (53 flights) and 20:15 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 20:1083 flights30.0%
- Departs 20:5953 flights19.1%
- Departs 20:1531 flights11.2%
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 20:10 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2701 runs 9 points better at 79.0%. 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 2701 next to ATL to LIT
Every carrier on ATL to LIT combined arrived on time 84.6% of the time across 2,276 flights, so DL 2701 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2701thin sample | 277 | 79.0% | 64 min | 1.81% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–LIT | 2,276 | 84.6% | 68 min | 1.98% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–LIT | 2,276 | 84.6% | 68 min | 1.98% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2701 quarter by quarter
DL 2701 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 61.3%, a swing of 39 points on roughly 55 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 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202557 flights80.7%
- Jan–Mar 202681 flights78.9%
- Apr–Jun 202678 flights76.9%
- Jul–Sep 202631 flights61.3%
Scale runs 55% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2701 did best on Tuesday at 92.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 67.4%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2701 runs when it is late
DL 2701 often beats the schedule: 78 of 272 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 57 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early78 flights28.7%
- Within 15 min137 flights50.4%
- 15–29 min late14 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late18 flights6.6%
- 1–2 hours late18 flights6.6%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 272 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 59 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2701
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 April 2026, 3 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across April, October, March, July and January, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 April 2026 | 3 hours 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 October 2025 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 March 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 5 July 2026 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 January 2026 | 2 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2701 runs late
Carrier accounts for 44% of the 3,652 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,614 of the 3,652 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,652 delay minutes reported on DL 2701.
Cancellations sit at 1.81% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
Every one of the 277 flights under DL 2701 in the data flew ATL to LIT. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 277 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.
What to do with this
Booking DL 2701
For a booking, DL 2701 is one of the weaker ways to fly ATL to LIT: 6 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
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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.