Flight number record
DL 1023
Delta Air Lines · Providence to Atlanta
- Route
- PVD → ATL
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1023, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1023 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1023's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 128 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights
Avg delay
124 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.74%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 1023 flies
DL 1023 flies PVD to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 209 of 365 flights, with 05:30 (62 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00209 flights57.3%
- Departs 05:3062 flights17.0%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1023 runs level with that at 90.1%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 1023 next to PVD to ATL
Every carrier on PVD to ATL combined arrived on time 86.1% of the time across 1,162 flights, so DL 1023 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1023 | 365 | 90.1% | 124 min | 2.74% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on PVD–ATL | 1,162 | 86.1% | 79 min | 2.67% | A |
| All carriers on PVD–ATL | 1,162 | 86.1% | 79 min | 2.67% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1023 quarter by quarter
DL 1023 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 85.4%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 73 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 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights89.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights95.0%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1023 ranged from 83.7% on Tuesday to 92.3% on Wednesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1023 runs when it is late
DL 1023 often beats the schedule: 148 of 353 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 35 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early148 flights41.9%
- Within 15 min170 flights48.2%
- 15–29 min late10 flights2.8%
- 30–59 min late9 flights2.5%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 353 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 31 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1023
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 July 2026, 13 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in April 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 July 2026 | 13 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 July 2026 | 7 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 April 2026 | 6 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 April 2026 | 5 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 April 2026 | 5 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1023 runs late
Carrier accounts for 72% of the 4,328 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 72%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 8%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 72%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,100 of the 4,328 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,328 delay minutes reported on DL 1023.
Cancellations run at 2.74%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% 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 903 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.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 1023 in the data flew PVD to ATL. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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.
What to do with this
Booking DL 1023
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1023: 2.74% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- PVD to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to PVD, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2147 on the same route85.1%
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.