Flight number record

DL 2892

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Columbus

Route: ATL → CMH
Departs: 15:35
Flights: 297
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2892, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2892 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 an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 297 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

80.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 292 completed flights

Avg delay

57 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.01%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 297 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 2892 flies

DL 2892 flies ATL to CMH without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:35, used on 56 of 297 flights, with 16:03 (39 flights) and 18:59 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:3556 flights18.9%
Departs 16:0339 flights13.1%
Departs 18:5936 flights12.1%

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 15:35 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2892 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 2892 next to ATL to CMH

Every carrier on ATL to CMH combined arrived on time 80.5% of the time across 3,159 flights, so DL 2892 is about level with it. Delta flew 2,693 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 2 points.

DL 2892 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2892thin sample	297	80.1%	57 min	1.01%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–CMH	2,693	82.1%	54 min	1.52%	B
All carriers on ATL–CMH	3,159	80.5%	54 min	1.46%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2892 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2892 held fairly steady: 79.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 82.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 75.4% 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 flights79.5%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights82.6%
Jan–Mar 202654 flights83.0%
Apr–Jun 202667 flights75.4%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2892 ranged from 75.6% on Sunday to 87.2% on Wednesday. With about 42 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 2892 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 57% of the 3,327 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
57%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, 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 1,891 of the 3,327 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,327 delay minutes reported on DL 2892.

Cancellations sit at 1.01% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.67%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.8% 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.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including CMH to ATL (234) and ONT to ATL (14), but none flew often enough under DL 2892 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to CMH only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 297 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 2892

For a booking, read DL 2892 as 80.1% on time with 1.01% cancelled over 297 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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