Flight number record
DL 2802
Delta Air Lines · Nashville to Atlanta
- Route
- BNA → ATL
- Departs
- 07:30
- Flights
- 258
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 258 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2802's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 105 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 255 completed flights
Avg delay
94 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.16%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 258 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 2802 flies
DL 2802 flies BNA to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:30, used on 139 of 258 flights, with 07:25 (31 flights) and 07:34 (27 flights) next.
- Departs 07:30139 flights53.9%
- Departs 07:2531 flights12.0%
- Departs 07:3427 flights10.5%
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 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 87.8%. 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 2802 next to BNA to ATL
Every carrier on BNA to ATL combined arrived on time 82.7% of the time across 4,271 flights, so DL 2802 is 5 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,368 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2802thin sample | 258 | 87.8% | 94 min | 1.16% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on BNA–ATL | 3,368 | 86.1% | 78 min | 2.05% | A |
| All carriers on BNA–ATL | 4,271 | 82.7% | 70 min | 1.66% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2802 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2802 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.1% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 87.5% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights84.8%
- Jan–Mar 202624 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.1%
- Jul–Sep 202633 flights87.5%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2802 did best on Sunday at 97.1% on time and worst on Monday at 78.4%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2802 runs when it is late
DL 2802 often beats the schedule: 105 of 255 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 31 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early105 flights41.2%
- Within 15 min119 flights46.7%
- 15–29 min late11 flights4.3%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.9%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late8 flights3.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 255 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 33 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2802
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 November 2025, 11 hours 33 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5 November 2025 | 11 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 September 2025 | 4 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 27 July 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 July 2026 | 3 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2802 runs late
Carrier accounts for 73% of the 2,923 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 73%Carrier
- 15%Extreme weather
- 12%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,923 delay minutes reported on DL 2802.
Cancellations sit at 1.16% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 258 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. 258 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: 87.8% on time and 1.16% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- BNA to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to BNA, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 3001 on the same route87.5%
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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.