Flight number record
DL 1168
Delta Air Lines · Fort Lauderdale to Atlanta
- Route
- FLL → ATL
- Departs
- 05:25
- Flights
- 337
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1168, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1168 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 19 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 4.4 hours. That rests on 337 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1168's record is 19 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 194 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
96.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 331 completed flights
Avg delay
264 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.48%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 337 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 1168 flies
DL 1168 flies FLL to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:25, used on 104 of 337 flights, with 05:30 (59 flights) and 06:30 (41 flights) next.
- Departs 05:25104 flights30.9%
- Departs 05:3059 flights17.5%
- Departs 06:3041 flights12.2%
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 05:25 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1168 runs 7 points better at 96.7%. 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 1168 next to FLL to ATL
Every carrier on FLL to ATL combined arrived on time 71.0% of the time across 7,366 flights, so DL 1168 is 26 points ahead of it. Delta flew 4,379 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1168thin sample | 337 | 96.7% | 264 min | 1.48% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on FLL–ATL | 4,379 | 78.5% | 73 min | 1.92% | B |
| All carriers on FLL–ATL | 7,366 | 71.0% | 74 min | 2.59% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1168 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1168 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 95.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 96.7% in Jan–Mar 2026, 98.9% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 98.4% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights95.4%
- Jan–Mar 202665 flights96.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights98.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights98.4%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1168 ranged from 93.6% on Tuesday to 100.0% on Wednesday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1168 runs when it is late
DL 1168 often beats the schedule: 171 of 331 completed flights, 52%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When DL 1168 is late it tends to be very late: 6 of its 11 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 5 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early171 flights51.7%
- Within 15 min149 flights45.0%
- 15–29 min late3 flights0.9%
- 30–59 min late2 flights0.6%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.3%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 331 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 13 of 331 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1168
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 November 2025, 17 hours 40 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 4 November 2025 | 17 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 September 2025 | 12 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 October 2025 | 6 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 July 2026 | 4 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 September 2025 | 3 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1168 runs late
Carrier accounts for 99% of the 2,908 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 99%Carrier
- 1%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 99%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,872 of the 2,908 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,908 delay minutes reported on DL 1168.
Cancellations sit at 1.48% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 581 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.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including TLH to ATL (24) and ATL to TLH (24), but none flew often enough under DL 1168 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to FLL to ATL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 337 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 1168
For a booking, DL 1168 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 96.7% on time and 1.48% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- FLL to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to FLL, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 2345 on the same route65.9%
- Delta Air Lines 1271 on the same route76.2%
- Delta Air Lines 1094 on the same route80.9%
- Delta Air Lines 1512 on the same route78.3%
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
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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.