Flight number record
DL 1002
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to El Paso
- Route
- ATL → ELP
- Departs
- 11:00
- Flights
- 362
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1002, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1002 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1002's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 64 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.93%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 362 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 1002 flies
DL 1002 flies ATL to ELP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 59 of 362 flights, with 12:15 (56 flights) and 11:58 (41 flights) next.
- Departs 11:0059 flights16.3%
- Departs 12:1556 flights15.5%
- Departs 11:5841 flights11.3%
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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 1002 runs 5 points better at 83.7%. 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 1002 next to ATL to ELP
Every carrier on ATL to ELP combined arrived on time 79.0% of the time across 726 flights, so DL 1002 is 5 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1002thin sample | 362 | 83.7% | 67 min | 1.93% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–ELP | 726 | 79.0% | 63 min | 1.79% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–ELP | 726 | 79.0% | 63 min | 1.79% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1002 quarter by quarter
DL 1002 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 90.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.5%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 72 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.2%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights76.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.7%
Scale runs 70% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 1002 did best on Friday at 92.3% on time and worst on Thursday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1002 runs when it is late
DL 1002 often beats the schedule: 109 of 355 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 58 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early109 flights30.7%
- Within 15 min188 flights53.0%
- 15–29 min late21 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late20 flights5.6%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 355 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 57 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1002
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 April 2026, 4 hours 31 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 April 2026 | 4 hours 31 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 31 October 2025 | 4 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 August 2026 | 3 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 3 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 November 2025 | 2 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1002 runs late
Carrier accounts for 65% of the 3,901 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 65%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 14%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,543 of the 3,901 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,901 delay minutes reported on DL 1002.
Cancellations sit at 1.93% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% 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.
The 1,282 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.
DL 1002 is not only a ATL to ELP flight. It also flew ELP to ATL (362 flights, 84.4% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 362 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELP to ATLthin sample | 362 | 84.4% | 112 min | 1.38% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 1002
For a booking, read DL 1002 as 83.7% on time with 1.93% cancelled over 362 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
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- ELP to ATL, the return direction
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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.