Flight number record
DL 1119
Delta Air Lines · Savannah to Detroit
- Route
- SAV → DTW
- Departs
- 11:14
- Flights
- 290
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1119, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1119 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 290 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1119's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 111 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 283 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.07%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 290 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 1119 flies
DL 1119 flies SAV to DTW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:14, used on 43 of 290 flights, with 11:30 (36 flights) and 11:17 (34 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 11:1443 flights14.8%
- Departs 11:3036 flights12.4%
- Departs 11:1734 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 11:14 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 1119 runs 10 points better at 88.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
DL 1119 next to SAV to DTW
Every carrier on SAV to DTW combined arrived on time 79.9% of the time across 591 flights, so DL 1119 is 9 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1119thin sample | 290 | 88.7% | 68 min | 2.07% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on SAV–DTWthin sample | 353 | 87.8% | 61 min | 1.70% | A |
| All carriers on SAV–DTW | 591 | 79.9% | 113 min | 1.35% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 1119 quarter by quarter
DL 1119 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 84.3%, a swing of 10 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 202588 flights87.2%
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights92.4%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights84.3%
- Apr–Jun 202636 flights94.3%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1119 did best on Wednesday at 95.1% on time and worst on Monday at 81.0%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 1119 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 78% of the 2,167 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.
- 78%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Carrier
- 1%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
78% 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 2,167 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 78 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 2,167 delay minutes reported on DL 1119.
Cancellations sit at 2.07% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.34%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% 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 705 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 1119 is not only a SAV to DTW flight. It also flew DTW to SAV (252 flights, 90.3% 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. 290 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTW to SAVthin sample | 252 | 90.3% | 76 min | 1.98% | A |
What to do with this
Booking DL 1119
For a booking, read DL 1119 as 88.7% on time with 2.07% cancelled over 290 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.