Flight number record
DL 3002
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Nashville
- Route
- ATL → BNA
- Departs
- 20:25
- Flights
- 263
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3002, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 3002 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four 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 263 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 258 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.52%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
8.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 263 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When DL 3002 flies
DL 3002 flies ATL to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:25, used on 43 of 263 flights, with 20:30 (32 flights) and 20:10 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 20:2543 flights16.3%
- Departs 20:3032 flights12.2%
- Departs 20:1032 flights12.2%
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 20:25 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 3002 runs 6 points better at 76.7%. 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 3002 next to ATL to BNA
Every carrier on ATL to BNA combined arrived on time 81.4% of the time across 4,242 flights, so DL 3002 is 5 points behind it. Delta flew 3,361 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 3002thin sample | 263 | 76.7% | 57 min | 1.52% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–BNA | 3,361 | 82.0% | 56 min | 1.90% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–BNA | 4,242 | 81.4% | 58 min | 1.60% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 3002 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 3002 held fairly steady: 71.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 77.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 77.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 79.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202546 flights71.1%
- Oct–Dec 202576 flights77.3%
- Jan–Mar 202678 flights77.3%
- Apr–Jun 202663 flights79.4%
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Delay causes
Why DL 3002 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,438 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, 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 1,377 of the 3,438 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,438 delay minutes reported on DL 3002.
Cancellations sit at 1.52% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.38%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.1% 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.
Every one of the 263 flights under DL 3002 in the data flew ATL to BNA. 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. 263 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 3002
For a booking, read DL 3002 as 76.7% on time with 1.52% cancelled over 263 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to BNA, every carrier and departure
- BNA to ATL, the return direction
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- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.