Flight number record

DL 2862

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Oklahoma City

Route: ATL → OKC
Departs: 15:20
Flights: 322
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2862, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2862 lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 322 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

On time

80.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 312 completed flights

Avg delay

51 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.48%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 322 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 2862 flies

DL 2862 flies ATL to OKC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:20, used on 56 of 322 flights, with 15:15 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:2056 flights17.4%
Departs 15:1533 flights10.2%

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 15:20 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2862 runs 8 points better at 80.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2862 next to ATL to OKC

Every carrier on ATL to OKC combined arrived on time 81.4% of the time across 1,829 flights, so DL 2862 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,725 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 2 points.

DL 2862 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2862thin sample	322	80.1%	51 min	2.48%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–OKC	1,725	82.5%	58 min	2.14%	B
All carriers on ATL–OKC	1,829	81.4%	61 min	2.19%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2862 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2862 held fairly steady: 79.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 78.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 79.1% 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 202591 flights79.8%
Oct–Dec 202574 flights83.6%
Jan–Mar 202666 flights78.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.1%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2862 ranged from 73.9% on Monday to 85.7% on Saturday. With about 46 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2862 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 60% of the 3,134 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
60%
Late-arriving aircraft
30%
National Airspace System
9%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,883 of the 3,134 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,134 delay minutes reported on DL 2862.

Cancellations sit at 2.48% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.62%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.4% 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 about 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 761 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 2862 is not only a ATL to OKC flight. It also flew OKC to ATL (307 flights, 83.2% 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. 322 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 2862
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OKC to ATLthin sample	307	83.2%	105 min	2.61%	B

What to do with this

Booking DL 2862

For a booking, read DL 2862 as 80.1% on time with 2.48% cancelled over 322 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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