DL2787

DL2787 arrived on time 83.2% of the time, against 77.8% for all DEN → DTW flights, so this departure is 5.4 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 1.5 points worse.

DL2787’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 11:45 AM earlier on, and around 10:30 AM more recently — a 75-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 630 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If DL2787 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL2787 on DEN → DTW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026

The aircraft flying DL2787 came in 15 or more minutes late on 15% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into DEN just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 621 of 627 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026

DL2787 pushes back an average of 9.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at DTW an average of 4.1 minutes late. The 5.1 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 18.1 minutes on the taxiways at DEN, 2.5 minutes shorter than a typical DEN departure in the same hour.

On arrival at DTW, DL2787 spends 9.4 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at DTW spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached DTW. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 60,415 departures from DEN scheduled in the clock hour DL2787 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DTW (388,616 flights), not just DL2787’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026

DL2787 is scheduled out of DEN at 10:25 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from DEN in that hour arrive on time 81.3% of the time against 76.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.3 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from DEN to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL2787 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. DL2787 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.

• DL1745 DEN→DTW Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 6:15 AM, on time 89.1%
• F93566 DEN→DTW Frontier Airlines on the same route, departs 6:00 AM, on time 84.1%
• UA1220 DEN→DTW United Airlines on the same route, departs 5:20 PM, on time 71.1%