Flight number record
DL 82
Delta Air Lines · Memphis to Atlanta
- Route
- MEM → ATL
- Departs
- 12:07
- Flights
- 286
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 82, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 82 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 286 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 82's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 116 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 279 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.10%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 286 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 82 flies
DL 82 flies MEM to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:07, used on 31 of 286 flights, with 11:40 (31 flights) and 11:42 (29 flights) next.
- Departs 12:0731 flights10.8%
- Departs 11:4031 flights10.8%
- Departs 11:4229 flights10.1%
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 12:07 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 82 runs 11 points better at 88.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 82 next to MEM to ATL
Every carrier on MEM to ATL combined arrived on time 86.2% of the time across 3,432 flights, so DL 82 is 3 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,348 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.7% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 82thin sample | 286 | 88.9% | 81 min | 2.10% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on MEM–ATL | 3,348 | 86.7% | 94 min | 1.85% | A |
| All carriers on MEM–ATL | 3,432 | 86.2% | 93 min | 1.92% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 82 quarter by quarter
DL 82 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.7%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 57 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 202561 flights91.7%
- Jan–Mar 202675 flights81.7%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights90.9%
- Jul–Sep 202630 flights90.0%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 82 did best on Wednesday at 97.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 80.0%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 82 runs when it is late
DL 82 often beats the schedule: 129 of 279 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 31 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early129 flights46.2%
- Within 15 min119 flights42.7%
- 15–29 min late13 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.9%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights1.1%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 279 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 30 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 82
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 January 2026, 10 hours 20 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 8 January 2026 | 10 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 August 2026 | 10 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 August 2026 | 2 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 April 2026 | 2 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 October 2025 | 1 hour 20 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 82 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 2,497 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 43%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,497 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 49 to one. The split is drawn from 2,497 delay minutes reported on DL 82.
Cancellations sit at 2.10% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.35%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.5% 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.
Every one of the 286 flights under DL 82 in the data flew MEM to ATL. 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. 286 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 82
For a booking, read DL 82 as 88.9% on time with 2.10% cancelled over 286 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.