Route Reliability
Detroit → Knoxville
DTW–TYS · 443 miles · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to McGhee Tyson Airport
- 74%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 15 min
- Average arrival delay
- 1.1%
- Cancelled
- 855
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
Delta Air Lines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 74% of the time across 855 flights. No comparison to make.
What the data says
Morning flights do better here.
DTW–TYS flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 85% of the time, versus 60% between 12–3 PM.
Sunday scaries are real for this one.
DTW–TYS flights arrived on time 82% of the time on Saturdays and just 66% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.
Trending in the right direction.
DTW–TYS flights arrived on time 74% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 65% in the three months before that.
Best historical flights
Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.
Top flights by on-time rate
More flights on this route
The breakdown
- Mon67%(125 flights)
- Tue81%(125 flights)
- Wed77%(125 flights)
- Thu79%(124 flights)
- Fri69%(123 flights)
- Sat82%(99 flights)
- Sun66%(124 flights)
- 6–9 AM85%(155 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM84%(182 flights)
- 12–3 PM60%(25 flights)
- 3–6 PM67%(163 flights)
- 6–9 PM68%(320 flights)
Jun 63% → May 75% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 63% | 82 |
| July 2025 | 72% | 83 |
| August 2025 | 78% | 69 |
| September 2025 | 92% | 60 |
| October 2025 | 90% | 61 |
| November 2025 | 76% | 58 |
| December 2025 | 58% | 48 |
| January 2026 | 62% | 53 |
| February 2026 | 73% | 52 |
| March 2026 | 66% | 82 |
| April 2026 | 82% | 85 |
| May 2026 | 75% | 112 |
Keep nerding
Based on 855 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.