Flight number record

DL 1002

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to El Paso

Route: ATL → ELP
Departs: 11:00
Flights: 362
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1002's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 55 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights

Avg delay

61 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.21%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 362 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 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 11:10 (54 flights) and 11:58 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:0059 flights16.3%
Departs 11:1054 flights14.9%
Departs 11:5841 flights11.3%

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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 1002 runs 4 points better at 83.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 1002 next to ATL to ELP

Every carrier on ATL to ELP combined arrived on time 79.6% of the time across 724 flights, so DL 1002 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

DL 1002 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1002thin sample	362	83.1%	61 min	2.21%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–ELP	724	79.6%	54 min	1.80%	B
All carriers on ATL–ELP	724	79.6%	54 min	1.80%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 91 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 202592 flights84.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.2%
Jan–Mar 202687 flights76.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1002 did best on Friday at 90.2% on time and worst on Thursday at 76.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1002 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 64% of the 3,640 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.

Carrier
64%
Late-arriving aircraft
16%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
6%

The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, 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 2,345 of the 3,640 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,640 delay minutes reported on DL 1002.

Cancellations sit at 2.21% against a national 1.81%, 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 4.2% 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 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. 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.

DL 1002 is not only a ATL to ELP flight. It also flew ELP to ATL (359 flights, 85.1% 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.

Other routes flown as DL 1002
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ELP to ATLthin sample	359	85.1%	89 min	1.67%	A

What to do with this

Booking DL 1002

For a booking, read DL 1002 as 83.1% on time with 2.21% cancelled over 362 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

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.

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