Flight number record
DL 992
Delta Air Lines · New York to Atlanta
- Route
- LGA → ATL
- Departs
- 09:00
- Flights
- 355
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 992, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 992 earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 355 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 992's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 92 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.66%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 355 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Schedule
When DL 992 flies
DL 992 is scheduled to leave New York (LGA) at 09:00 local time and reach Atlanta (ATL) at 11:34. That slot held for 298 of the 355 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 09:00298 flights83.9%
- Departs 08:5957 flights16.1%
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 09:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 992 runs 3 points better at 86.8%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
DL 992 next to LGA to ATL
Every carrier on LGA to ATL combined arrived on time 76.6% of the time across 8,343 flights, so DL 992 is 10 points ahead of it. Delta flew 4,933 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 992thin sample | 355 | 86.8% | 61 min | 3.66% | A− |
| All Delta Air Lines on LGA–ATL | 4,933 | 79.9% | 73 min | 2.98% | B |
| All carriers on LGA–ATL | 8,343 | 76.6% | 78 min | 3.67% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 992 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 992 held fairly steady: 87.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 82.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 87.6% 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 202585 flights87.1%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights82.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights90.2%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights87.6%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 992 did best on Saturday at 93.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 76.7%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 992 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 59% of the 2,762 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 59%Carrier
- 32%National Airspace System
- 10%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, 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 1,618 of the 2,762 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,762 delay minutes reported on DL 992.
Cancellations run at 3.66%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.6% 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.
The 762 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
Every one of the 355 flights under DL 992 in the data flew LGA 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. 355 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 992
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 992: 3.66% of its 355 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to LGA, the return direction
- Frontier Airlines 3287 on the same route62.7%
- Delta Air Lines 550 on the same route89.8%
- Delta Air Lines 968 on the same route74.3%
- Delta Air Lines 342 on the same route93.1%
- Delta Air Lines 993 on the same route84.0%
- Delta Air Lines 974 on the same route79.6%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.