Flight number record
DL 1082
Delta Air Lines · Hartford to Atlanta
- Route
- BDL → ATL
- Departs
- 14:49
- Flights
- 342
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 342 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 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 50 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 333 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.34%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 342 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 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 342 flights, with 14:12 (41 flights) and 13:50 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 14:4947 flights13.7%
- Departs 14:1241 flights12.0%
- Departs 13:5038 flights11.1%
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 14:49 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 1082 runs 10 points better at 82.3%. 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 1082 next to BDL to ATL
Every carrier on BDL to ATL combined arrived on time 84.2% of the time across 2,310 flights, so DL 1082 is 2 points behind it. Delta flew 2,219 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1082thin sample | 342 | 82.3% | 81 min | 2.34% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on BDL–ATL | 2,219 | 84.5% | 64 min | 1.98% | B |
| All carriers on BDL–ATL | 2,310 | 84.2% | 66 min | 1.95% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 2026 at 66.0%, a swing of 27 points on roughly 86 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202584 flights79.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.5%
- Apr–Jun 202686 flights92.9%
- Jul–Sep 202653 flights66.0%
Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1082 did best on Wednesday at 88.5% on time and worst on Tuesday at 73.1%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1082 runs when it is late
DL 1082 often beats the schedule: 107 of 333 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 59 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early107 flights32.1%
- Within 15 min167 flights50.2%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights2.7%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 333 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 59 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1082
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 July 2026, 7 hours 40 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2026 | 7 hours 40 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 7 December 2025 | 5 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 October 2025 | 5 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 March 2026 | 4 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 March 2026 | 3 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 1082 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 4,792 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%National Airspace System
- 23%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,792 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 45 to one. The split is drawn from 4,792 delay minutes reported on DL 1082.
Cancellations sit at 2.34% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, 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.
DL 1082 is not only a BDL to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to BDL (342 flights, 88.3% 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. 342 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL to BDLthin sample | 342 | 88.3% | 64 min | 2.34% | A |
What to do with this
Booking DL 1082
For a booking, read DL 1082 as 82.3% on time with 2.34% cancelled over 342 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.