Flight number record

DL 894

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to San Diego

Route: ATL → SAN
Departs: 11:00
Flights: 341
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 894, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 894 lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 40 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 341 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

80.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights

Avg delay

41 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.59%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 341 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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.

Schedule

When DL 894 flies

DL 894 flies ATL to SAN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 100 of 341 flights, with 11:05 (92 flights) and 11:10 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:00100 flights29.3%
Departs 11:0592 flights27.0%
Departs 11:1049 flights14.4%

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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 894 runs level with that at 80.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 894 next to ATL to SAN

Every carrier on ATL to SAN combined arrived on time 78.8% of the time across 2,413 flights, so DL 894 is about level with it. Delta flew 2,172 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 894 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 894thin sample	341	80.2%	41 min	0.59%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–SAN	2,172	78.4%	48 min	0.69%	B+
All carriers on ATL–SAN	2,413	78.8%	47 min	0.62%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 894 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 894 held fairly steady: 81.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 82.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 75.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 82.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights81.5%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights82.6%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.0%
Apr–Jun 202667 flights82.1%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 894 did best on Wednesday at 89.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 70.2%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 894 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 2,736 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
42%
National Airspace System
38%
Late-arriving aircraft
17%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, 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 1,148 of the 2,736 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,736 delay minutes reported on DL 894.

Cancellations are rare at 0.59%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.

At 1,892 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.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including SAN to ATL (146) and MSY to DTW (21), but none flew often enough under DL 894 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to SAN only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 341 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 894

For a booking, read DL 894 as 80.2% on time with 0.59% cancelled over 341 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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.

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