Flight number record
DL 895
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Los Angeles
- Route
- ATL → LAX
- Departs
- 12:40
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 895, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 895 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 895's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 103 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.27%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 895 flies
DL 895 flies ATL to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:40, used on 61 of 365 flights, with 12:35 (59 flights) and 11:20 (52 flights) next.
- Departs 12:4061 flights16.7%
- Departs 12:3559 flights16.2%
- Departs 11:2052 flights14.2%
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 12:40 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 895 runs 9 points better at 87.6%. 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 895 next to ATL to LAX
Every carrier on ATL to LAX combined arrived on time 77.8% of the time across 4,851 flights, so DL 895 is 10 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,817 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 895 | 365 | 87.6% | 60 min | 0.27% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–LAX | 3,817 | 79.1% | 57 min | 0.73% | B+ |
| All carriers on ATL–LAX | 4,851 | 77.8% | 65 min | 0.82% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 895 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 895 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.9% in Jan–Mar 2026, 87.9% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 87.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights89.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights87.1%
Scale runs 75% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 895 ranged from 82.7% on Saturday to 92.5% on Monday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 895 runs when it is late
DL 895 often beats the schedule: 118 of 364 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 45 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early118 flights32.4%
- Within 15 min201 flights55.2%
- 15–29 min late20 flights5.5%
- 30–59 min late13 flights3.6%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 364 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 56 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 22 still arrived on time. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 895
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 May 2026, 5 hours 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2026 | 5 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 4 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 December 2025 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 February 2026 | 2 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 November 2025 | 2 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 895 runs late
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 2,710 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,462 of the 2,710 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,710 delay minutes reported on DL 895.
Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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 3.3% 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 1,947 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 365 flights under DL 895 in the data flew ATL 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. 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
Booking DL 895
For a booking, DL 895 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.6% on time and 0.27% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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.