Flight number record
DL 694
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Los Angeles
- Route
- DTW → LAX
- Departs
- 20:30
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 694, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 694 draws a D. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 694 runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 131 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.10%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
11.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 694 flies
DL 694 flies DTW to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:30, used on 73 of 364 flights, with 20:55 (64 flights) and 20:35 (47 flights) next.
- Departs 20:3073 flights20.1%
- Departs 20:5564 flights17.6%
- Departs 20:3547 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 20:30 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 694 runs 6 points worse at 64.2%. 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 694 next to DTW to LAX
Every carrier on DTW to LAX combined arrived on time 75.8% of the time across 2,361 flights, so DL 694 is 12 points behind it. Delta flew 1,954 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 694thin sample | 364 | 64.2% | 58 min | 1.10% | D |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–LAX | 1,954 | 75.8% | 58 min | 0.92% | B+ |
| All carriers on DTW–LAX | 2,361 | 75.8% | 59 min | 1.06% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 694 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 694 held fairly steady: 66.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 65.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 61.1% in Jan–Mar 2026, 64.4% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 65.0% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights66.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights65.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights61.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights64.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights65.0%
Scale runs 55% to 70%.
By weekday, DL 694 did best on Saturday at 75.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 51.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 694 runs when it is late
The 129 late arrivals split 47 under half an hour, 41 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 41 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early76 flights21.1%
- Within 15 min155 flights43.1%
- 15–29 min late47 flights13.1%
- 30–59 min late41 flights11.4%
- 1–2 hours late28 flights7.8%
- 2+ hours late13 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 360 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
29 of 125 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 33 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 694
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 September 2025, 9 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2025 | 9 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 November 2025 | 3 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 June 2026 | 3 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 July 2026 | 3 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 March 2026 | 2 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 694 runs late
Carrier accounts for 50% of the 7,511 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,730 of the 7,511 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,511 delay minutes reported on DL 694.
Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
11.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 1,979 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
Every one of the 364 flights under DL 694 in the data flew DTW to LAX. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 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 694
For a booking, DL 694 is one of the weaker ways to fly DTW to LAX: 12 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.
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Where to go next
- DTW to LAX, every carrier and departure
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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.