Flight number record
DL 1060
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Austin
- Route
- ATL → AUS
- Departs
- 17:20
- Flights
- 309
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1060, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1060 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 309 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 1060 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 42 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 304 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.62%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
7.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 309 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Schedule
When DL 1060 flies
DL 1060 flies ATL to AUS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:20, used on 42 of 309 flights, with 17:54 (38 flights) and 18:22 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 17:2042 flights13.6%
- Departs 17:5438 flights12.3%
- Departs 18:2236 flights11.7%
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 17:20 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 1060 runs 5 points better at 73.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
DL 1060 next to ATL to AUS
Every carrier on ATL to AUS combined arrived on time 79.8% of the time across 4,545 flights, so DL 1060 is 6 points behind it. Delta flew 3,233 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1060thin sample | 309 | 73.4% | 63 min | 1.62% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–AUS | 3,233 | 80.2% | 57 min | 1.48% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–AUS | 4,545 | 79.8% | 58 min | 1.39% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 1060 quarter by quarter
DL 1060 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 88.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 53.8%, a swing of 35 points on roughly 77 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 flights53.8%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights73.3%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights88.4%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights85.4%
Scale runs 45% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1060 did best on Wednesday at 88.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 63.6%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 1060 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 5,088 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, 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 1,946 of the 5,088 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,088 delay minutes reported on DL 1060.
Cancellations sit at 1.62% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 813 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.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including AUS to ATL (71), MCI to BOS (26) and ORD to SEA (3), but none flew often enough under DL 1060 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to AUS only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 309 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 1060
For a booking, DL 1060 is one of the weaker ways to fly ATL to AUS: 6 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to AUS, every carrier and departure
- AUS to ATL, the return direction
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- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.