Flight number record

DL 2836

Delta Air Lines · Miami to Atlanta

Route: MIA → ATL
Departs: 10:28
Flights: 356
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2836, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2836 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 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 356 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2836's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 70 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights

Avg delay

90 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.69%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 356 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When DL 2836 flies

DL 2836 flies MIA to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:28, used on 72 of 356 flights, with 10:33 (68 flights) and 10:40 (48 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 10:2872 flights20.2%
Departs 10:3368 flights19.1%
Departs 10:4048 flights13.5%

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 10:28 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2836 runs level with that at 84.6%. 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 2836 next to MIA to ATL

Every carrier on MIA to ATL combined arrived on time 73.7% of the time across 6,223 flights, so DL 2836 is 11 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,300 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.7% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 2836 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2836thin sample	356	84.6%	90 min	1.69%	B
All Delta Air Lines on MIA–ATL	3,300	76.7%	83 min	1.39%	B
All carriers on MIA–ATL	6,223	73.7%	80 min	1.41%	C
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2836 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2836 held fairly steady: 84.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 80.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 88.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202589 flights84.3%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights84.7%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights80.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.8%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2836 did best on Friday at 92.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 73.8%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2836 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 4,842 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
50%
Late-arriving aircraft
37%
National Airspace System
13%

37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,842 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 4,842 delay minutes reported on DL 2836.

Cancellations sit at 1.69% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 594 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.

DL 2836 is not only a MIA to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to MIA (342 flights, 88.6% 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. 356 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 2836
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ATL to MIAthin sample	342	88.6%	45 min	2.34%	A

What to do with this

Booking DL 2836

For a booking, read DL 2836 as 84.6% on time with 1.69% cancelled over 356 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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