Flight number record

DL 2860

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Savannah

Route: ATL → SAV
Departs: 22:56
Flights: 306
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2860, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2860 lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 306 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2860's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 52 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 302 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.31%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 306 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 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 306 flights, with 22:55 (48 flights) and 20:45 (39 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:5660 flights19.6%
Departs 22:5548 flights15.7%
Departs 20:4539 flights12.7%

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 22:56 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2860 runs 12 points better at 82.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2860 next to ATL to SAV

Every carrier on ATL to SAV combined arrived on time 83.5% of the time across 3,013 flights, so DL 2860 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 2860 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2860thin sample	306	82.8%	60 min	1.31%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–SAV	3,013	83.5%	53 min	1.43%	B
All carriers on ATL–SAV	3,013	83.5%	53 min	1.43%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2860 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2860 held fairly steady: 78.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 83.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202573 flights78.1%
Oct–Dec 202552 flights80.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.5%

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

By weekday, DL 2860 did best on Tuesday at 90.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 72.3%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2860 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,092 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
35%
Late-arriving aircraft
26%
Extreme weather
23%
National Airspace System
16%

Extreme weather accounts for 23% 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 3.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,092 delay minutes reported on DL 2860.

Cancellations sit at 1.31% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.3% 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.

Every one of the 306 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. 306 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 2860

For a booking, read DL 2860 as 82.8% on time with 1.31% cancelled over 306 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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