Flight number record
DL 3001
Delta Air Lines · Nashville to Atlanta
- Route
- BNA → ATL
- Departs
- 06:20
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3001, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 3001 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 3001's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 102 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.37%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 3001 flies
DL 3001 flies BNA to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:20, used on 73 of 365 flights, with 06:15 (68 flights) and 06:29 (45 flights) next.
- Departs 06:2073 flights20.0%
- Departs 06:1568 flights18.6%
- Departs 06:2945 flights12.3%
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 06:20 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 3001 runs level with that at 87.5%. 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 3001 next to BNA to ATL
Every carrier on BNA to ATL combined arrived on time 82.7% of the time across 4,271 flights, so DL 3001 is 5 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,368 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 3001 | 365 | 87.5% | 76 min | 1.37% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on BNA–ATL | 3,368 | 86.1% | 78 min | 2.05% | A |
| All carriers on BNA–ATL | 4,271 | 82.7% | 70 min | 1.66% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 3001 quarter by quarter
DL 3001 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 91.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.5%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 73 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights86.9%
Scale runs 75% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 3001 did best on Saturday at 94.1% on time and worst on Monday at 76.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 3001 runs when it is late
DL 3001 often beats the schedule: 161 of 359 completed flights, 45%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 26 of the 45 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 8 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early161 flights44.8%
- Within 15 min153 flights42.6%
- 15–29 min late26 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.1%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.6%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 16 of 359 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 3001
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 March 2026, 14 hours 20 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 22 March 2026 | 14 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 September 2025 | 7 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 6 hours 56 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 25 December 2025 | 3 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 August 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 3001 runs late
Carrier accounts for 56% of the 3,397 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Carrier
- 27%National Airspace System
- 16%Extreme weather
- 1%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 16% 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 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,397 delay minutes reported on DL 3001.
Cancellations sit at 1.37% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.2% 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.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 3001 in the data flew BNA to ATL. 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. 365 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 3001
For a booking, DL 3001 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.5% on time and 1.37% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
- BNA to ATL, 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.