Flight number record
DL 3101
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Asheville
- Route
- ATL → AVL
- Departs
- 16:30
- Flights
- 258
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3101, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 3101 lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 258 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 3101's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 43 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 255 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.16%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 258 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 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 258 flights, with 19:05 (41 flights) and 16:40 (33 flights) next.
- Departs 16:3058 flights22.5%
- Departs 19:0541 flights15.9%
- Departs 16:4033 flights12.8%
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 16:30 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 3101 runs 10 points better at 81.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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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 1,997 flights, so DL 3101 is 3 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 3101thin sample | 258 | 81.6% | 61 min | 1.16% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–AVL | 1,997 | 84.8% | 69 min | 1.15% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–AVL | 1,997 | 84.8% | 69 min | 1.15% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 3101 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 3101 held fairly steady: 76.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 81.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 83.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights76.7%
- Oct–Dec 202577 flights81.6%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights81.9%
- Apr–Jun 202666 flights83.3%
Scale runs 70% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 3101 did best on Tuesday at 86.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 69.7%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 3101 runs when it is late
The 47 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early57 flights22.4%
- Within 15 min151 flights59.2%
- 15–29 min late16 flights6.3%
- 30–59 min late15 flights5.9%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.9%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 255 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 54 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. Only 1 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 3101
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 March 2026, 7 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across March, May, January and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2026 | 7 hours 7 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 23 May 2026 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 January 2026 | 2 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 February 2026 | 2 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 February 2026 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 3101 runs late
Carrier accounts for 43% of the 2,886 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Carrier
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
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 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,886 delay minutes reported on DL 3101.
Cancellations sit at 1.16% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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 same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including AVL to ATL (220), but none flew often enough under DL 3101 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to AVL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 258 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 3101
For a booking, read DL 3101 as 81.6% on time with 1.16% cancelled over 258 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.