Flight number record

DL 2802

Delta Air Lines · Nashville to Atlanta

Route: BNA → ATL
Departs: 07:30
Flights: 282
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2802, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2802 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 282 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2802's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 110 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 280 completed flights

Avg delay

83 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.71%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 282 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 2802 flies

DL 2802 flies BNA to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:30, used on 152 of 282 flights, with 07:15 (35 flights) and 07:25 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:30152 flights53.9%
Departs 07:1535 flights12.4%
Departs 07:2531 flights11.0%

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 07:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2802 runs level with that at 88.6%. 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 2802 next to BNA to ATL

Every carrier on BNA to ATL combined arrived on time 84.5% of the time across 4,239 flights, so DL 2802 is 4 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,360 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

DL 2802 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2802thin sample	282	88.6%	83 min	0.71%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on BNA–ATL	3,360	87.1%	72 min	2.02%	A
All carriers on BNA–ATL	4,239	84.5%	64 min	1.65%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2802 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2802 held fairly steady: 90.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.8% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 91.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202587 flights90.8%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights84.8%
Jan–Mar 202624 flights—
Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.1%

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

By weekday, DL 2802 did best on Thursday at 95.1% on time and worst on Saturday at 82.9%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2802 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 70% of the 2,651 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
70%
Extreme weather
17%
National Airspace System
13%

Extreme weather accounts for 17% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,651 delay minutes reported on DL 2802.

Cancellations are rare at 0.71%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

Every one of the 282 flights under DL 2802 in the data flew BNA to ATL. 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. 282 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 2802

For a booking, DL 2802 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.6% on time and 0.71% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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