Flight number record

DL 1082

Delta Air Lines · Hartford to Atlanta

Route: BDL → ATL
Departs: 14:49
Flights: 346
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1082, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1082 lands a B, 5 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 close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 346 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1082's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 45 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 336 completed flights

Avg delay

100 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.31%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 346 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 1082 flies

DL 1082 flies BDL to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:49, used on 47 of 346 flights, with 14:12 (41 flights) and 14:19 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:4947 flights13.6%
Departs 14:1241 flights11.8%
Departs 14:1936 flights10.4%

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 14:49 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 1082 runs 10 points better at 82.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 1082 next to BDL to ATL

Every carrier on BDL to ATL combined arrived on time 83.4% of the time across 2,328 flights, so DL 1082 is about level with it. Delta flew 2,212 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 1082 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1082thin sample	346	82.1%	100 min	2.31%	B
All Delta Air Lines on BDL–ATL	2,212	83.9%	73 min	2.03%	B
All carriers on BDL–ATL	2,328	83.4%	73 min	1.98%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1082 quarter by quarter

DL 1082 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 92.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 76.5%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 87 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 202586 flights76.5%
Oct–Dec 202584 flights79.5%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.5%
Apr–Jun 202686 flights92.9%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1082 did best on Saturday at 90.9% on time and worst on Monday at 76.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1082 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 6,002 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
51%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
3%
Security
1%

51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,002 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 6,002 delay minutes reported on DL 1082.

Cancellations sit at 2.31% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.58%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

8.0% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 859 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 1082 is not only a BDL to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to BDL (344 flights, 86.2% 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. 346 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 1082
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ATL to BDLthin sample	344	86.2%	69 min	2.62%	A

What to do with this

Booking DL 1082

For a booking, read DL 1082 as 82.1% on time with 2.31% cancelled over 346 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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