Flight number record
DL 2814
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Hartford
- Route
- DTW → BDL
- Departs
- 14:30
- Flights
- 336
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2814, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2814 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 336 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2814's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 89 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 326 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.98%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 336 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 2814 flies
DL 2814 flies DTW to BDL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:30, used on 77 of 336 flights, with 14:27 (70 flights) and 14:45 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 14:3077 flights22.9%
- Departs 14:2770 flights20.8%
- Departs 14:4540 flights11.9%
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 14:30 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2814 runs 14 points better at 86.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2814 next to DTW to BDL
Every carrier on DTW to BDL combined arrived on time 85.4% of the time across 1,242 flights, so DL 2814 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,240 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2814thin sample | 336 | 86.2% | 60 min | 2.98% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–BDL | 1,240 | 85.5% | 68 min | 2.18% | A |
| All carriers on DTW–BDL | 1,242 | 85.4% | 71 min | 2.17% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2814 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2814 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 86.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 88.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.5% 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 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights86.1%
- Jan–Mar 202673 flights82.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.5%
Scale runs 75% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 2814 did best on Monday at 91.3% on time and worst on Saturday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2814 runs when it is late
DL 2814 often beats the schedule: 126 of 326 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 45 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early126 flights38.7%
- Within 15 min155 flights47.5%
- 15–29 min late17 flights5.2%
- 30–59 min late13 flights4.0%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights2.8%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 326 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 50 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2814
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 June 2026, 3 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 June 2026 | 3 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 May 2026 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 February 2026 | 3 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 August 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 March 2026 | 2 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2814 runs late
Carrier accounts for 64% of the 2,676 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Carrier
- 16%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,725 of the 2,676 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,676 delay minutes reported on DL 2814.
Cancellations run at 2.98%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% 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.
The 549 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.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including BDL to DTW (240) and TPA to LGA (12), but none flew often enough under DL 2814 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DTW to BDL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 336 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 2814
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2814: 2.98% of its 336 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DTW to BDL, every carrier and departure
- BDL to DTW, the return direction
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- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) delay statistics
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- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.