Flight number record

DL 2893

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to San Antonio

Route: ATL → SAT
Departs: 18:55
Flights: 356
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2893, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2893 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 356 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

73.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.84%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 356 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 2893 flies

DL 2893 flies ATL to SAT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:55, used on 54 of 356 flights, with 18:59 (49 flights) and 18:47 (48 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:5554 flights15.2%
Departs 18:5949 flights13.8%
Departs 18:4748 flights13.5%

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 18:55 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2893 runs 6 points better at 73.9%. 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 2893 next to ATL to SAT

Every carrier on ATL to SAT combined arrived on time 81.2% of the time across 3,027 flights, so DL 2893 is 7 points behind it. Delta flew 2,610 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 8 points.

DL 2893 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2893thin sample	356	73.9%	60 min	0.84%	C+
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–SAT	2,610	81.5%	53 min	1.69%	B
All carriers on ATL–SAT	3,027	81.2%	55 min	1.49%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2893 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2893 held fairly steady: 69.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 76.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 76.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 74.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202587 flights69.0%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights76.1%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights76.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights74.2%

Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2893 did best on Wednesday at 83.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 62.7%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2893 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 5,507 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
39%
Late-arriving aircraft
36%
Extreme weather
12%
National Airspace System
12%
Security
1%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,507 delay minutes reported on DL 2893.

Cancellations are rare at 0.84%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

8.5% 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 an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 874 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.

Every one of the 356 flights under DL 2893 in the data flew ATL to SAT. 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. 356 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 2893

For a booking, DL 2893 is one of the weaker ways to fly ATL to SAT: 7 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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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