Flight number record
DL 2886
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Austin
- Route
- ATL → AUS
- Departs
- 09:40
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2886, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2886 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2886's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 112 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.38%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 2886 flies
DL 2886 flies ATL to AUS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:40, used on 151 of 363 flights, with 09:35 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 09:40151 flights41.6%
- Departs 09:3537 flights10.2%
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 09:40 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2886 runs 5 points better at 88.5%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2886 next to ATL to AUS
Every carrier on ATL to AUS combined arrived on time 81.0% of the time across 4,497 flights, so DL 2886 is 8 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,163 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2886thin sample | 363 | 88.5% | 49 min | 1.38% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–AUS | 3,163 | 81.9% | 58 min | 1.49% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–AUS | 4,497 | 81.0% | 59 min | 1.27% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2886 quarter by quarter
DL 2886 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 93.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 83.3%, a swing of 10 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 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights87.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights90.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.4%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2886 did best on Friday at 94.1% on time and worst on Monday at 80.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2886 runs when it is late
DL 2886 often beats the schedule: 134 of 357 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 41 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 6 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early134 flights37.5%
- Within 15 min182 flights51.0%
- 15–29 min late19 flights5.3%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.1%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 357 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 45 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2886
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 April 2026, 5 hours 57 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 April 2026 | 5 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 January 2026 | 3 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 December 2025 | 1 hour 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 October 2025 | 1 hour 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 January 2026 | 1 hour 11 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2886 runs late
Carrier accounts for 62% of the 2,005 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 62%Carrier
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,245 of the 2,005 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,005 delay minutes reported on DL 2886.
Cancellations sit at 1.38% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.
The 813 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.
DL 2886 is not only a ATL to AUS flight. It also flew AUS to ATL (291 flights, 83.6% 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. 363 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS to ATLthin sample | 291 | 83.6% | 46 min | 1.37% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2886
For a booking, DL 2886 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.5% on time and 1.38% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to AUS, every carrier and departure
- AUS to ATL, the return direction
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- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) delay statistics
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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.