Flight number record

DL 2911

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Kansas City

Route: ATL → MCI
Departs: 22:40
Flights: 357
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2911, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2911 lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six 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 357 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2911's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 52 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 349 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.96%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 357 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 2911 flies

DL 2911 flies ATL to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:40, used on 75 of 357 flights, with 22:48 (47 flights) and 23:04 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:4075 flights21.0%
Departs 22:4847 flights13.2%
Departs 23:0436 flights10.1%

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 22:40 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2911 runs 12 points better at 82.8%. 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 2911 next to ATL to MCI

Every carrier on ATL to MCI combined arrived on time 82.8% of the time across 3,281 flights, so DL 2911 is about level with it. Delta flew 2,758 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 2911 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2911thin sample	357	82.8%	64 min	1.96%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MCI	2,758	84.6%	57 min	1.38%	B
All carriers on ATL–MCI	3,281	82.8%	58 min	1.19%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2911 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2911 held fairly steady: 87.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 82.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 79.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 81.8% in Apr–Jun 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 202592 flights87.8%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights82.0%
Jan–Mar 202685 flights79.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.8%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2911 did best on Wednesday at 90.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2911 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 59% of the 3,829 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
59%
National Airspace System
19%
Late-arriving aircraft
12%
Extreme weather
10%

The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, 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 2,252 of the 3,829 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,829 delay minutes reported on DL 2911.

Cancellations sit at 1.96% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.7% 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 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. 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.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including ATL to LEX (1), but none flew often enough under DL 2911 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to MCI only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 357 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 2911

For a booking, read DL 2911 as 82.8% on time with 1.96% cancelled over 357 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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