Flight number record

DL 2994

Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Jacksonville

Route: DTW → JAX
Departs: 14:50
Flights: 262
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2994, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2994 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly 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 262 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

78.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 260 completed flights

Avg delay

56 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.76%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 262 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 2994 flies

DL 2994 flies DTW to JAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:50, used on 58 of 262 flights, with 14:30 (34 flights) and 14:59 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:5058 flights22.1%
Departs 14:3034 flights13.0%
Departs 14:5931 flights11.8%

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 14:50 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2994 runs 6 points better at 78.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2994 next to DTW to JAX

Every carrier on DTW to JAX combined arrived on time 84.5% of the time across 633 flights, so DL 2994 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

DL 2994 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2994thin sample	262	78.1%	56 min	0.76%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on DTW–JAX	633	84.5%	55 min	1.90%	B
All carriers on DTW–JAX	633	84.5%	55 min	1.90%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2994 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2994 held fairly steady: 77.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 76.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 77.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 80.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202570 flights77.1%
Oct–Dec 202568 flights76.5%
Jan–Mar 202636 flights77.1%
Apr–Jun 202688 flights80.5%

Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2994 did best on Tuesday at 86.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 63.4%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2994 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 49% of the 3,197 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
49%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
7%

The largest share of delay minutes, 49%, 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 1,552 of the 3,197 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,197 delay minutes reported on DL 2994.

Cancellations are rare at 0.76%, 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

5.8% 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 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. 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.

DL 2994 is not only a DTW to JAX flight. It also flew JAX to DTW (262 flights, 81.9% 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. 262 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2994
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
JAX to DTWthin sample	262	81.9%	59 min	0.76%	B+

What to do with this

Booking DL 2994

For a booking, DL 2994 is one of the weaker ways to fly DTW to JAX: 6 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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