Flight number record
DL 894
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to San Diego
- Route
- ATL → SAN
- Departs
- 11:00
- Flights
- 279
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 894, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 894 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 40 minutes on average. That rests on 279 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
78.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 277 completed flights
Avg delay
40 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.72%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 279 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 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 279 flights, with 11:05 (56 flights) and 11:15 (28 flights) next.
- Departs 11:00100 flights35.8%
- Departs 11:0556 flights20.1%
- Departs 11:1528 flights10.0%
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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 894 runs level with that at 78.0%. 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 894 next to ATL to SAN
Every carrier on ATL to SAN combined arrived on time 78.2% of the time across 2,353 flights, so DL 894 is about level with it. Delta flew 2,173 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 894thin sample | 279 | 78.0% | 40 min | 0.72% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–SAN | 2,173 | 77.8% | 47 min | 0.69% | B+ |
| All carriers on ATL–SAN | 2,353 | 78.2% | 46 min | 0.64% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 894 quarter by quarter
DL 894 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 82.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 63.3%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 70 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 flights63.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights82.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.0%
- Apr–Jun 202667 flights82.1%
Scale runs 55% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 894 did best on Wednesday at 87.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 65.8%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 894 runs when it is late
DL 894 often beats the schedule: 86 of 277 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 32 of the 61 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 11 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early86 flights31.0%
- Within 15 min130 flights46.9%
- 15–29 min late32 flights11.6%
- 30–59 min late18 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.6%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 277 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 40 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 30 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 SAN.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 894
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 3 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across December, April, February and January, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 3 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 April 2026 | 1 hour 45 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 5 December 2025 | 1 hour 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 February 2026 | 1 hour 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 January 2026 | 1 hour 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 894 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 43% of the 2,411 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%National Airspace System
- 37%Carrier
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 887 of the 2,411 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,411 delay minutes reported on DL 894.
Cancellations are rare at 0.72%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% 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.
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 (49), 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. 279 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 78.0% on time with 0.72% cancelled over 279 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.