Flight number record

DL 2814

Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Hartford

Route: DTW → BDL
Departs: 14:30
Flights: 336
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 336 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2814's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 89 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 327 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.68%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 336 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 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 (65 flights) and 14:29 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:3077 flights22.9%
Departs 14:2765 flights19.3%
Departs 14:2946 flights13.7%

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 14:30 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2814 runs 14 points better at 86.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2814 next to DTW to BDL

Every carrier on DTW to BDL combined arrived on time 84.4% of the time across 1,297 flights, so DL 2814 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,233 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 5 points.

DL 2814 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2814thin sample	336	86.5%	64 min	2.68%	A
All Delta Air Lines on DTW–BDL	1,233	84.8%	69 min	1.62%	B
All carriers on DTW–BDL	1,297	84.4%	71 min	1.54%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2814 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2814 held fairly steady: 88.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 86.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 88.6% 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 202592 flights88.0%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights86.1%
Jan–Mar 202673 flights82.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.6%

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

By weekday, DL 2814 ranged from 80.0% on Saturday to 90.0% on Wednesday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2814 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 61% of the 2,834 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
61%
National Airspace System
16%
Late-arriving aircraft
12%
Extreme weather
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,834 delay minutes reported on DL 2814.

Cancellations run at 2.68%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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 4.9% 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.

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. 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.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including BDL to DTW (228) 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: 2.68% 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.

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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