Flight number record

DL 3116

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Asheville

Route: ATL → AVL
Departs: 22:40
Flights: 271
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3116, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 3116 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 3116's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 65 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 264 completed flights

Avg delay

105 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.85%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 271 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When DL 3116 flies

DL 3116 flies ATL to AVL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:40, used on 56 of 271 flights, with 12:22 (36 flights) and 22:43 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:4056 flights20.7%
Departs 12:2236 flights13.3%
Departs 22:4335 flights12.9%

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 22:40 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 3116 runs 14 points better at 84.1%. 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 3116 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 3116 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 3116 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 3116thin sample	271	84.1%	105 min	1.85%	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 3116 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 3116 held fairly steady: 81.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 86.7% 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 202592 flights81.1%
Oct–Dec 202552 flights80.8%
Jan–Mar 202666 flights88.7%
Apr–Jun 202661 flights86.7%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 3116 did best on Tuesday at 92.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 72.2%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 3116 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 64% of the 4,393 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
64%
Late-arriving aircraft
18%
Extreme weather
15%
National Airspace System
3%

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 4,393 delay minutes reported on DL 3116.

Cancellations sit at 1.85% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.74%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.3% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including AVL to ATL (103), but none flew often enough under DL 3116 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. 271 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 3116

For a booking, read DL 3116 as 84.1% on time with 1.85% cancelled over 271 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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