Flight number record

DL 3101

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Asheville

Route: ATL → AVL
Departs: 16:30
Flights: 314
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3101, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 3101 lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About 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 314 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

On time

79.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 310 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 314 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 3101 flies

DL 3101 flies ATL to AVL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:30, used on 58 of 314 flights, with 19:05 (41 flights) and 16:40 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:3058 flights18.5%
Departs 19:0541 flights13.1%
Departs 16:4033 flights10.5%

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 16:30 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 3101 runs 7 points better at 79.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 3101 next to ATL to AVL

Every carrier on ATL to AVL combined arrived on time 84.8% of the time across 2,044 flights, so DL 3101 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

DL 3101 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 3101thin sample	314	79.0%	64 min	1.27%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–AVL	2,044	84.8%	66 min	1.22%	B
All carriers on ATL–AVL	2,044	84.8%	66 min	1.22%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 3101 quarter by quarter

DL 3101 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 70.6%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 79 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 202586 flights70.6%
Oct–Dec 202577 flights81.6%
Jan–Mar 202685 flights81.9%
Apr–Jun 202666 flights83.3%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 3101 did best on Tuesday at 84.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 72.2%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 3101 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 4,148 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
42%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
Extreme weather
14%
National Airspace System
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,148 delay minutes reported on DL 3101.

Cancellations sit at 1.27% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.4% 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.

DL 3101 is not only a ATL to AVL flight. It also flew AVL to ATL (268 flights, 76.7% 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. 314 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 3101
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AVL to ATLthin sample	268	76.7%	73 min	2.24%	B

What to do with this

Booking DL 3101

For a booking, DL 3101 is one of the weaker ways to fly ATL to AVL: 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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