Flight number record

DL 3001

Delta Air Lines · Nashville to Atlanta

Route: BNA → ATL
Departs: 06:20
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 364 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 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 104 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights

Avg delay

80 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.37%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 87 of 364 flights, with 06:15 (81 flights) and 06:29 (45 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:2087 flights23.9%
Departs 06:1581 flights22.3%
Departs 06:2945 flights12.4%

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 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 88.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 3001 next to BNA to ATL

Every carrier on BNA to ATL combined arrived on time 84.5% of the time across 4,239 flights, so DL 3001 is 4 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,360 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 6 points.

DL 3001 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 3001thin sample	364	88.0%	80 min	1.37%	A
All Delta Air Lines on BNA–ATL	3,360	87.1%	72 min	2.02%	A
All carriers on BNA–ATL	4,239	84.5%	64 min	1.65%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 91 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 202591 flights90.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.5%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.9%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 3001 did best on Thursday at 94.2% on time and worst on Monday at 74.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 3001 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 3,424 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
55%
National Airspace System
25%
Extreme weather
15%
Late-arriving aircraft
5%

Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,424 delay minutes reported on DL 3001.

Cancellations sit at 1.37% against a national 1.81%, 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 2.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 364 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. 364 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: 88.0% on time and 1.37% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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