TVC to ATL flight delays
Traverse City, MI (TVC) Atlanta, GA (ATL) · 769 miles
70 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
66.18% of flights from Traverse City to Atlanta arrived within 15 minutes of schedule over July 2024 – July 2026, across 70 flights.
66.18%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.86%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
47 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
17 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 2.86% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
The two directions do not behave alike. ATL to TVC arrives on time 17.6 points more often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
This route does worse than its own airport. TVC as a whole runs 10.8 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.
This is a late route. Flights from Traverse City to Atlanta miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
Every airline on TVC to ATL
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 70 | 66.18% | 2.86% | 47 min | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
ATL to TVC Atlanta back to Traverse City 83.82% on time —Other routes from Traverse City
Common questions
Are flights from Traverse City to Atlanta usually delayed?
66.18% of flights on the TVC to ATL route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
How often are TVC to ATL flights cancelled?
2.86% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 29 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When TVC to ATL flights are late, how late are they?
About 47 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on TVC to ATL during July 2024 – July 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →