Flight number record
DL 2746
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- DTW → DFW
- Departs
- 08:50
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2746, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2746 lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 55 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 349 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.22%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
5.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 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 08:25 (70 flights) and 08:40 (70 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 08:5073 flights20.2%
- Departs 08:2570 flights19.4%
- Departs 08:4070 flights19.4%
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 08:50 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2746 runs 5 points worse at 79.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
DL 2746 next to DTW to DFW
Every carrier on DTW to DFW combined arrived on time 75.3% of the time across 3,509 flights, so DL 2746 is 4 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,405 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2746thin sample | 361 | 79.4% | 55 min | 2.22% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–DFW | 1,405 | 76.3% | 57 min | 1.71% | B |
| All carriers on DTW–DFW | 3,509 | 75.3% | 76 min | 2.25% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | 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 84.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 73.5%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 90 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 202592 flights84.3%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights79.8%
- Jan–Mar 202688 flights73.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.5%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2746 did best on Tuesday at 84.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 72.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2746 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 48% of the 3,926 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.
- 48%Carrier
- 36%National Airspace System
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
36% 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 1,430 minutes out of 3,926, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,926 delay minutes reported on DL 2746.
Cancellations sit at 2.22% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.11%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.2% 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 55 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
DL 2746 is not only a DTW to DFW flight. It also flew DFW to DTW (337 flights, 79.0% 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 | 337 | 79.0% | 86 min | 2.08% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2746
For a booking, read DL 2746 as 79.4% on time with 2.22% cancelled over 361 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.