Flight number record
DL 2860
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Savannah
- Route
- ATL → SAV
- Departs
- 22:56
- Flights
- 325
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2860, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2860 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 about an hour on average. That rests on 325 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2860's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 64 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 319 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.85%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 325 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 2860 flies
DL 2860 flies ATL to SAV without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:56, used on 60 of 325 flights, with 22:46 (53 flights) and 22:55 (48 flights) next.
- Departs 22:5660 flights18.5%
- Departs 22:4653 flights16.3%
- Departs 22:5548 flights14.8%
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 22:56 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2860 runs 14 points better at 83.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2860 next to ATL to SAV
Every carrier on ATL to SAV combined arrived on time 82.1% of the time across 3,064 flights, so DL 2860 is 2 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2860thin sample | 325 | 83.7% | 60 min | 1.85% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–SAV | 3,064 | 82.1% | 56 min | 1.50% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–SAV | 3,064 | 82.1% | 56 min | 1.50% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2860 quarter by quarter
DL 2860 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 76.7%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 65 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202552 flights80.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights76.7%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2860 did best on Tuesday at 93.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 74.5%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2860 runs when it is late
The 52 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early48 flights15.0%
- Within 15 min219 flights68.7%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.8%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 319 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 52 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2860
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 January 2026, 9 hours 40 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across January, March, November, July and June, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 January 2026 | 9 hours 40 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 15 March 2026 | 3 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 November 2025 | 2 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 July 2026 | 2 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 June 2026 | 1 hour 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2860 runs late
Carrier accounts for 44% of the 3,135 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Carrier
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Extreme weather
- 15%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 3.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,135 delay minutes reported on DL 2860.
Cancellations sit at 1.85% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.0% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
Every one of the 325 flights under DL 2860 in the data flew ATL to SAV. 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. 325 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
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For a booking, read DL 2860 as 83.7% on time with 1.85% cancelled over 325 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.