Flight number record
DL 2746
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- DTW → DFW
- Departs
- 08:50
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2746, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2746 lands a B, 3 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 roughly 50 minutes on average. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
52 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.49%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2746 flies
DL 2746 flies DTW to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:50, used on 73 of 361 flights, with 08:35 (72 flights) and 08:25 (70 flights) next.
- Departs 08:5073 flights20.2%
- Departs 08:3572 flights19.9%
- Departs 08:2570 flights19.4%
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 08:50 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2746 runs 3 points worse at 80.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2746 next to DTW to DFW
Every carrier on DTW to DFW combined arrived on time 75.8% of the time across 3,482 flights, so DL 2746 is 5 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,406 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2746thin sample | 361 | 80.6% | 52 min | 2.49% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–DFW | 1,406 | 77.4% | 57 min | 1.71% | B |
| All carriers on DTW–DFW | 3,482 | 75.8% | 73 min | 2.24% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2746 quarter by quarter
DL 2746 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 73.5%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 72 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 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights79.8%
- Jan–Mar 202688 flights73.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.3%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 2746 did best on Tuesday at 88.5% on time and worst on Friday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2746 runs when it is late
DL 2746 often beats the schedule: 131 of 350 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 68 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early131 flights37.4%
- Within 15 min151 flights43.1%
- 15–29 min late27 flights7.7%
- 30–59 min late23 flights6.6%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 47 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 32 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2746
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 November 2025, 4 hours 11 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2025 | 4 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 December 2025 | 3 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 January 2026 | 2 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 June 2026 | 2 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 January 2026 | 2 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2746 runs late
Carrier accounts for 42% of the 3,506 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Carrier
- 40%National Airspace System
- 14%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
40% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,411 minutes out of 3,506, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,506 delay minutes reported on DL 2746.
Cancellations sit at 2.49% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.55%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.1% 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 roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 986 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 2746 is not only a DTW to DFW flight. It also flew DFW to DTW (333 flights, 80.0% 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. 361 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFW to DTWthin sample | 333 | 80.0% | 74 min | 2.40% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2746
For a booking, read DL 2746 as 80.6% on time with 2.49% cancelled over 361 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- DTW to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to DTW, the return direction
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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.