Flight number record

DL 1130

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Kansas City

Route: ATL → MCI
Departs: 19:59
Flights: 320
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1130, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1130 lands a B+, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 320 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

On time

78.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 315 completed flights

Avg delay

71 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.94%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 320 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% 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 1130 flies

DL 1130 flies ATL to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:59, used on 81 of 320 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:5981 flights25.3%

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 19:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 1130 runs 10 points better at 78.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 1130 next to ATL to MCI

Every carrier on ATL to MCI combined arrived on time 82.8% of the time across 3,281 flights, so DL 1130 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 2,758 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

DL 1130 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1130thin sample	320	78.4%	71 min	0.94%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MCI	2,758	84.6%	57 min	1.38%	B
All carriers on ATL–MCI	3,281	82.8%	58 min	1.19%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1130 quarter by quarter

DL 1130 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 84.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 73.1%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 80 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 202592 flights73.3%
Oct–Dec 202586 flights81.0%
Jan–Mar 202652 flights73.1%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights84.3%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1130 ranged from 73.9% on Wednesday to 84.6% on Saturday. With about 46 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 1130 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 4,801 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
40%
Carrier
37%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
2%

40% 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 4,801 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 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 4,801 delay minutes reported on DL 1130.

Cancellations sit at 0.94% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.62%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

8.3% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 692 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.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including BOS to AUS (19), SLC to SJC (14) and SJC to SLC (14), but none flew often enough under DL 1130 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to MCI only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 320 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 1130

For a booking, read DL 1130 as 78.4% on time with 0.94% cancelled over 320 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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