Flight number record
DL 883
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Los Angeles
- Route
- DTW → LAX
- Departs
- 15:50
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 883, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 883 lands a B+, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights
Avg delay
54 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 883 flies
DL 883 flies DTW to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:50, used on 108 of 364 flights.
- Departs 15:50108 flights29.7%
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 15:50 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 883 runs 5 points better at 76.5%. 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 883 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 883 is about level with 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 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 883thin sample | 364 | 76.5% | 54 min | 0.55% | B+ |
| 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 883 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 883 held fairly steady: 80.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 71.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 78.7% in Jan–Mar 2026, 75.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 80.3% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights71.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights78.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.3%
Scale runs 65% to 85%.
By weekday, DL 883 did best on Wednesday at 82.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 65.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 883 runs when it is late
DL 883 often beats the schedule: 91 of 362 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 85 late arrivals split 36 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early91 flights25.1%
- Within 15 min186 flights51.4%
- 15–29 min late36 flights9.9%
- 30–59 min late28 flights7.7%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 362 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
18 of 75 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 28 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 883
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 January 2026, 12 hours 43 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 28 January 2026 | 12 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 2 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 August 2026 | 2 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 May 2026 | 2 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 August 2026 | 2 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 883 runs late
Carrier accounts for 50% of the 4,573 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,309 of the 4,573 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,573 delay minutes reported on DL 883.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.89% 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
5.8% 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 roughly 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 883 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 883
For a booking, read DL 883 as 76.5% on time with 0.55% cancelled over 364 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.