Flight number record

DL 2718

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Gulfport

Route: ATL → GPT
Departs: 13:45
Flights: 321
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 321 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2718's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 64 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 319 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.62%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 321 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2718 flies

DL 2718 flies ATL to GPT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:45, used on 45 of 321 flights, with 13:03 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:4545 flights14.0%
Departs 13:0333 flights10.3%

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 13:45 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2718 runs 5 points better at 84.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2718 next to ATL to GPT

Every carrier on ATL to GPT combined arrived on time 84.0% of the time across 1,316 flights, so DL 2718 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

DL 2718 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2718thin sample	321	84.0%	60 min	0.62%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–GPT	1,316	84.0%	64 min	1.52%	B
All carriers on ATL–GPT	1,316	84.0%	64 min	1.52%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2718 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2718 held fairly steady: 89.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 81.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 82.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202566 flights89.4%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights84.4%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights81.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.4%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2718 did best on Wednesday at 91.3% on time and worst on Thursday at 76.1%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2718 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 63% of the 3,042 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
63%
Late-arriving aircraft
19%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
7%

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 1,912 of the 3,042 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,042 delay minutes reported on DL 2718.

Cancellations are rare at 0.62%, below the national 1.81% 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

5.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

DL 2718 is not only a ATL to GPT flight. It also flew GPT to ATL (321 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. 321 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 2718
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
GPT to ATLthin sample	321	88.1%	83 min	0.62%	A+

What to do with this

Booking DL 2718

For a booking, read DL 2718 as 84.0% on time with 0.62% cancelled over 321 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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