Flight number record
DL 3162
Delta Air Lines · Myrtle Beach to Atlanta
- Route
- MYR → ATL
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 255
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3162, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 3162 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 255 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 3162's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 150 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 248 completed flights
Avg delay
97 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.75%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 255 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 3162 flies
DL 3162 is scheduled to leave Myrtle Beach (MYR) at 06:00 local time and reach Atlanta (ATL) at 07:30. That slot held for 247 of the 255 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 06:00247 flights96.9%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 3162 runs 3 points better at 92.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 3162 next to MYR to ATL
Every carrier on MYR to ATL combined arrived on time 88.6% of the time across 1,511 flights, so DL 3162 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 3162thin sample | 255 | 92.3% | 97 min | 2.75% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on MYR–ATL | 1,511 | 88.6% | 96 min | 2.12% | A |
| All carriers on MYR–ATL | 1,511 | 88.6% | 96 min | 2.12% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 3162 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 3162 held fairly steady: 89.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 96.7% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.3% in Jul–Sep 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.
- Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights89.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.3%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 3162 ranged from 85.7% on Tuesday to 97.1% on Saturday. With about 36 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 3162 runs when it is late
DL 3162 often beats the schedule: 120 of 248 completed flights, 48%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When DL 3162 is late it tends to be very late: 10 of its 19 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 5 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early120 flights48.4%
- Within 15 min109 flights44.0%
- 15–29 min late2 flights0.8%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.8%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late5 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 248 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 20 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 1 made it up before arrival. No flight that left on time arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 3162
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 5 hours 36 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 5 hours 36 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 4 February 2026 | 3 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 May 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 February 2026 | 2 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 May 2026 | 2 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 3162 runs late
Carrier accounts for 66% of the 1,845 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 66%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 12%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,221 of the 1,845 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,845 delay minutes reported on DL 3162.
Cancellations run at 2.75%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including MKE to DTW (42) and DTW to MKE (42), but none flew often enough under DL 3162 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MYR to ATL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 255 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 3162
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 3162: 2.75% of its 255 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
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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.