Flight number record

DL 2827

Delta Air Lines · Daytona Beach to Atlanta

Route: DAB → ATL
Departs: 15:04
Flights: 365
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2827, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2827 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2827's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 60 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights

Avg delay

74 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.10%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

6.7%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2827 flies

DL 2827 flies DAB to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:04, used on 54 of 365 flights, with 15:11 (44 flights) and 14:35 (39 flights) next.

Departs 15:0454 flights14.8%
Departs 15:1144 flights12.1%
Departs 14:3539 flights10.7%

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 15:04 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2827 runs 11 points better at 83.3%. 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 2827 next to DAB to ATL

Every carrier on DAB to ATL combined arrived on time 88.3% of the time across 1,449 flights, so DL 2827 is 5 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

DL 2827 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2827	365	83.3%	74 min	1.10%	B
All Delta Air Lines on DAB–ATL	1,449	88.3%	95 min	1.73%	A
All carriers on DAB–ATL	1,449	88.3%	95 min	1.73%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2827 quarter by quarter

DL 2827 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 70.5%, a swing of 30 points on roughly 73 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 202530 flights100.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights89.0%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.3%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights70.5%

Scale runs 60% to 100%.

By weekday, DL 2827 did best on Wednesday at 88.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 68.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2827 runs when it is late

DL 2827 often beats the schedule: 106 of 360 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.

15+ min early106 flights29.4%
Within 15 min194 flights53.9%
15–29 min late19 flights5.3%
30–59 min late17 flights4.7%
1–2 hours late13 flights3.6%
2+ hours late11 flights3.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 360 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

9 of 65 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2827

The latest arrival of the period was on 22 February 2026, 5 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across February, November, August, March and July, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of DL 2827 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
22 February 2026	5 hours 28 minutes	Carrier
8 November 2025	4 hours 50 minutes	National Airspace System
11 August 2026	3 hours 56 minutes	National Airspace System
16 March 2026	3 hours 19 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
9 July 2026	3 hours 9 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 2827 runs late

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 42% of the 4,419 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
42%
National Airspace System
28%
Carrier
18%
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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,419 delay minutes reported on DL 2827.

Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

DL 2827 is not only a DAB to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to DAB (365 flights, 87.5% 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. 365 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2827
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ATL to DAB	365	87.5%	55 min	1.10%	A

What to do with this

Booking DL 2827

For a booking, DL 2827 is one of the weaker ways to fly DAB to ATL: 5 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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