Flight number record

DL 1109

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Albuquerque

Route: ATL → ABQ
Departs: 14:09
Flights: 277
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1109, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1109 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 277 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1109's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 88 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 272 completed flights

Avg delay

47 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.44%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 277 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 1109 flies

DL 1109 flies ATL to ABQ without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:09, used on 35 of 277 flights, with 14:25 (30 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:0935 flights12.6%
Departs 14:2530 flights10.8%

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 14:09 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 1109 runs 14 points better at 86.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 1109 next to ATL to ABQ

Every carrier on ATL to ABQ combined arrived on time 85.3% of the time across 996 flights, so DL 1109 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 5 points.

DL 1109 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1109thin sample	277	86.4%	47 min	1.44%	A
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–ABQ	996	85.3%	47 min	1.51%	A
All carriers on ATL–ABQ	996	85.3%	47 min	1.51%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1109 quarter by quarter

DL 1109 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 94.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.3%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 69 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 202577 flights88.3%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights86.0%
Jan–Mar 202635 flights94.1%
Apr–Jun 202678 flights81.3%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1109 did best on Wednesday at 95.1% on time and worst on Monday at 78.3%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1109 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 62% of the 1,749 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.

Carrier
62%
Late-arriving aircraft
24%
National Airspace System
9%
Extreme weather
5%

The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, 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 1,090 of the 1,749 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,749 delay minutes reported on DL 1109.

Cancellations sit at 1.44% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.36%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 1,269 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 1109 is not only a ATL to ABQ flight. It also flew ABQ to ATL (269 flights, 86.6% 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. 277 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 1109
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ABQ to ATLthin sample	269	86.6%	120 min	1.86%	A

What to do with this

Booking DL 1109

For a booking, DL 1109 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.4% on time and 1.44% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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