Flight number record
DL 2718
Delta Air Lines · Gulfport to Atlanta
- Route
- GPT → ATL
- Departs
- 15:00
- Flights
- 338
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2718, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2718 earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 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 338 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2718's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 74 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 334 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.59%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 338 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2718 flies
DL 2718 flies GPT to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:00, used on 44 of 338 flights, with 14:53 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 15:0044 flights13.0%
- Departs 14:5335 flights10.4%
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 15:00 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2718 runs 13 points better at 84.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2718 next to GPT to ATL
Every carrier on GPT to ATL combined arrived on time 86.7% of the time across 1,322 flights, so DL 2718 is 2 points behind it. 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 2718thin sample | 338 | 84.7% | 89 min | 0.59% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on GPT–ATL | 1,322 | 86.7% | 98 min | 1.59% | A |
| All carriers on GPT–ATL | 1,322 | 86.7% | 98 min | 1.59% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2718 quarter by quarter
DL 2718 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 89.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 67.2%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 85 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 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights86.8%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights89.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights67.2%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2718 ranged from 81.2% on Saturday to 91.7% on Tuesday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2718 runs when it is late
DL 2718 often beats the schedule: 162 of 334 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When DL 2718 is late it tends to be very late: 28 of its 51 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 17 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early162 flights48.5%
- Within 15 min121 flights36.2%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.3%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.6%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late17 flights5.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 334 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 65 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2718
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 July 2026, 3 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2026 | 3 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 July 2026 | 3 hours 38 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 10 January 2026 | 3 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 July 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 June 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2718 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 4,522 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%National Airspace System
- 16%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,522 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 21 to one. The split is drawn from 4,522 delay minutes reported on DL 2718.
Cancellations are rare at 0.59%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.4% 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.
DL 2718 is not only a GPT to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to GPT (338 flights, 83.0% 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. 338 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 GPTthin sample | 338 | 83.0% | 63 min | 0.59% | B+ |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2718
For a booking, read DL 2718 as 84.7% on time with 0.59% cancelled over 338 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- GPT to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to GPT, the return direction
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- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
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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.