Flight number record

DL 694

Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Los Angeles

Route: DTW → LAX
Departs: 20:55
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%, so DL 694 runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 131 extra late arrivals.

On time

64.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights

Avg delay

57 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.82%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 694 flies

DL 694 flies DTW to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:55, used on 59 of 364 flights, with 20:35 (47 flights) and 20:30 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:5559 flights16.2%
Departs 20:3547 flights12.9%
Departs 20:3044 flights12.1%

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 20:55 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 694 runs 6 points worse at 64.5%. 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 694 next to DTW to LAX

Every carrier on DTW to LAX combined arrived on time 77.9% of the time across 2,527 flights, so DL 694 is 13 points behind it. Delta flew 1,979 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 17 points.

DL 694 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 694thin sample	364	64.5%	57 min	0.82%	D+
All Delta Air Lines on DTW–LAX	1,979	77.3%	59 min	0.76%	B+
All carriers on DTW–LAX	2,527	77.9%	60 min	0.87%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 694 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 694 held fairly steady: 67.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 65.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 61.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 64.4% in Apr–Jun 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 202592 flights67.0%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights65.6%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights61.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights64.4%

Scale runs 55% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 694 did best on Saturday at 78.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 51.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 28 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 694 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 7,318 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
47%
Late-arriving aircraft
27%
National Airspace System
22%
Extreme weather
4%
Security
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,423 of the 7,318 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,318 delay minutes reported on DL 694.

Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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: 13 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.

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.

Key figures