Flight number record
DL 3116
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Asheville
- Route
- ATL → AVL
- Departs
- 22:49
- Flights
- 271
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3116, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 3116 lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 3116's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 47 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 266 completed flights
Avg delay
96 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.11%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 271 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 3116 flies
DL 3116 flies ATL to AVL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:49, used on 50 of 271 flights, with 12:22 (36 flights) and 22:40 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 22:4950 flights18.5%
- Departs 12:2236 flights13.3%
- Departs 22:4035 flights12.9%
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 22:49 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 3116 runs 12 points better at 82.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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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 1,997 flights, so DL 3116 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 3116thin sample | 271 | 82.0% | 96 min | 1.11% | 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 3116 quarter by quarter
DL 3116 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 66.1%, a swing of 27 points on roughly 54 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 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202552 flights80.8%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights88.7%
- Apr–Jun 202661 flights86.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights66.1%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 3116 did best on Wednesday at 89.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 69.4%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 3116 runs when it is late
DL 3116 often beats the schedule: 76 of 266 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 48 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 22 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early76 flights28.6%
- Within 15 min142 flights53.4%
- 15–29 min late15 flights5.6%
- 30–59 min late11 flights4.1%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights5.3%
- 2+ hours late8 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 266 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 50 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 3116
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 June 2026, 10 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 June 2026 | 10 hours 25 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 July 2026 | 8 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 July 2026 | 8 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 3 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 3116 runs late
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 4,593 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%Extreme weather
- 6%National Airspace System
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 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,593 delay minutes reported on DL 3116.
Cancellations sit at 1.11% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.74%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.3% 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 an hour and a half, 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 82.0% on time with 1.11% cancelled over 271 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.