Flight number record
DL 893
Delta Air Lines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Atlanta
- Route
- DFW → ATL
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 893, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 893 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 a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 893's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 152 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 893 flies
DL 893 flies DFW to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 106 of 365 flights, with 07:10 (67 flights) and 06:45 (56 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00106 flights29.0%
- Departs 07:1067 flights18.4%
- Departs 06:4556 flights15.3%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 893 runs 3 points better at 92.5%. 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 893 next to DFW to ATL
Every carrier on DFW to ATL combined arrived on time 75.6% of the time across 6,672 flights, so DL 893 is 17 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,785 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.5% on time. 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 893 | 365 | 92.5% | 79 min | 1.92% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on DFW–ATL | 2,785 | 83.5% | 83 min | 2.59% | B |
| All carriers on DFW–ATL | 6,672 | 75.6% | 74 min | 2.52% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 893 quarter by quarter
DL 893 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 96.8% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 85.6%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 73 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 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights95.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights94.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights96.8%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 893 did best on Friday at 98.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 86.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 893 runs when it is late
DL 893 often beats the schedule: 140 of 358 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When DL 893 is late it tends to be very late: 14 of its 27 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 7 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early140 flights39.1%
- Within 15 min191 flights53.4%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.0%
- 30–59 min late6 flights1.7%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 358 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 30 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 11 still arrived on time. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 893
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 September 2025, 4 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as extreme weather.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2025 | 4 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 2 hours 50 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 24 November 2025 | 2 hours 45 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 July 2026 | 2 hours 43 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 4 April 2026 | 2 hours 21 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why DL 893 runs late
Carrier accounts for 47% of the 2,133 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
- 26%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 26% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 4.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,133 delay minutes reported on DL 893.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.9% 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 731 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 893 in the data flew DFW 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. 365 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
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For a booking, read DL 893 as 92.5% on time with 1.92% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.