Flight number record

DL 1258

Delta Air Lines · Austin to Atlanta

Route: AUS → ATL
Departs: 06:40
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1258, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1258 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1258's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 163 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

93.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights

Avg delay

111 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.64%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 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 1258 flies

DL 1258 flies AUS to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:40, used on 204 of 365 flights, with 06:30 (91 flights) and 06:25 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:40204 flights55.9%
Departs 06:3091 flights24.9%
Departs 06:2540 flights11.0%

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 06:40 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1258 runs 5 points better at 93.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 1258 next to AUS to ATL

Every carrier on AUS to ATL combined arrived on time 82.0% of the time across 4,544 flights, so DL 1258 is 12 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,232 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 12 points.

DL 1258 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1258	365	93.9%	111 min	1.64%	A
All Delta Air Lines on AUS–ATL	3,232	85.6%	73 min	1.49%	A
All carriers on AUS–ATL	4,544	82.0%	68 min	1.43%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1258 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1258 held fairly steady: 94.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 98.9% in Apr–Jun 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 202592 flights94.5%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights90.1%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights98.9%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1258 ranged from 86.3% on Sunday to 98.1% on Friday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 1258 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 73% of the 2,450 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
73%
National Airspace System
27%

The largest share of delay minutes, 73%, 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 1,799 of the 2,450 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,450 delay minutes reported on DL 1258.

Cancellations sit at 1.64% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.3% 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 813 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.

Every one of the 365 flights under DL 1258 in the data flew AUS 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 1258

For a booking, read DL 1258 as 93.9% on time with 1.64% cancelled over 365 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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