Flight number record
DL 2908
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Kansas City
- Route
- ATL → MCI
- Departs
- 10:05
- Flights
- 332
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2908, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2908 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 332 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2908's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 131 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 324 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.41%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 332 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 2908 flies
DL 2908 flies ATL to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:05, used on 102 of 332 flights, with 10:00 (46 flights) and 11:10 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 10:05102 flights30.7%
- Departs 10:0046 flights13.9%
- Departs 11:1035 flights10.5%
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 10:05 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2908 runs 7 points better at 90.4%. 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 2908 next to ATL to MCI
Every carrier on ATL to MCI combined arrived on time 82.6% of the time across 3,246 flights, so DL 2908 is 8 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,707 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2908thin sample | 332 | 90.4% | 58 min | 2.41% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MCI | 2,707 | 84.0% | 60 min | 1.33% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–MCI | 3,246 | 82.6% | 59 min | 1.14% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2908 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2908 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 89.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.9% in Jan–Mar 2026, 87.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 96.8% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights89.1%
- Jan–Mar 202665 flights87.9%
- Apr–Jun 202683 flights87.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights96.8%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2908 did best on Wednesday at 98.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 81.6%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2908 runs when it is late
DL 2908 often beats the schedule: 87 of 324 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 31 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early87 flights26.9%
- Within 15 min206 flights63.6%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.4%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.1%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.2%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 324 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 31 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 10 still arrived on time. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2908
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 April 2026, 5 hours 31 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 April 2026 | 5 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 April 2026 | 2 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 January 2026 | 2 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 March 2026 | 1 hour 52 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 November 2025 | 1 hour 41 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2908 runs late
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 1,810 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 984 of the 1,810 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,810 delay minutes reported on DL 2908.
Cancellations sit at 2.41% against a national 1.89%, 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 3.1% 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 692 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 2908 is not only a ATL to MCI flight. It also flew MCI to ATL (294 flights, 90.2% 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. 332 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCI to ATLthin sample | 294 | 90.2% | 64 min | 1.70% | A |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2908
For a booking, read DL 2908 as 90.4% on time with 2.41% cancelled over 332 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- ATL to MCI, every carrier and departure
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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.