Flight number record
DL 1108
Delta Air Lines · Syracuse to Atlanta
- Route
- SYR → 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 1108, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1108 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 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 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1108's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
105 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.19%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 1108 flies
DL 1108 flies SYR to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 192 of 365 flights.
- Departs 06:00192 flights52.6%
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 1108 runs 4 points worse at 85.1%. 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 1108 next to SYR to ATL
Every carrier on SYR to ATL combined arrived on time 83.3% of the time across 1,124 flights, so DL 1108 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,096 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1108 | 365 | 85.1% | 105 min | 2.19% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on SYR–ATL | 1,096 | 83.5% | 88 min | 1.92% | B |
| All carriers on SYR–ATL | 1,124 | 83.3% | 87 min | 1.96% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1108 quarter by quarter
DL 1108 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 75.3%, a swing of 21 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights75.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.9%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1108 did best on Monday at 91.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 78.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1108 runs when it is late
DL 1108 often beats the schedule: 113 of 355 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 53 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early113 flights31.8%
- Within 15 min189 flights53.2%
- 15–29 min late19 flights5.4%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 355 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 38 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 12 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 27 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at ATL.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1108
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 December 2025, 19 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 December 2025 | 19 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 January 2026 | 7 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 August 2026 | 7 hours | Carrier |
| 6 January 2026 | 6 hours | Carrier |
| 15 March 2026 | 5 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1108 runs late
Carrier accounts for 82% of the 5,579 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 82%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 82%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,567 of the 5,579 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,579 delay minutes reported on DL 1108.
Cancellations sit at 2.19% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.55%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.1% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 794 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 1108 in the data flew SYR 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 1108
For a booking, read DL 1108 as 85.1% on time with 2.19% cancelled over 365 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.