Flight number record
DL 1295
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale
- Route
- ATL → FLL
- Departs
- 16:40
- Flights
- 349
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1295, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1295 draws a C+. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 1295 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 100 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.86%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 349 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 1295 flies
DL 1295 flies ATL to FLL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:40, used on 84 of 349 flights, with 16:39 (50 flights) and 16:44 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 16:4084 flights24.1%
- Departs 16:3950 flights14.3%
- Departs 16:4440 flights11.5%
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 16:40 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 1295 runs 5 points worse at 67.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 1295 next to ATL to FLL
Every carrier on ATL to FLL combined arrived on time 70.7% of the time across 7,371 flights, so DL 1295 is 3 points behind it. Delta flew 4,383 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1295thin sample | 349 | 67.3% | 61 min | 0.86% | C+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–FLL | 4,383 | 73.9% | 57 min | 1.78% | C |
| All carriers on ATL–FLL | 7,371 | 70.7% | 66 min | 2.46% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1295 quarter by quarter
DL 1295 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 86.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 54.1%, a swing of 33 points on roughly 70 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 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights71.3%
- Jan–Mar 202682 flights63.0%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights70.1%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights54.1%
Scale runs 45% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 1295 did best on Wednesday at 77.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 49.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1295 runs when it is late
The 113 late arrivals split 44 under half an hour, 32 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 37 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early49 flights14.2%
- Within 15 min184 flights53.2%
- 15–29 min late44 flights12.7%
- 30–59 min late32 flights9.2%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights7.2%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 346 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 99 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 29 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at FLL.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1295
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 July 2026, 4 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as national airspace system delay.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 July 2026 | 4 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 27 February 2026 | 4 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 November 2025 | 3 hours 53 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 15 March 2026 | 3 hours 33 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 August 2026 | 3 hours 22 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 1295 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 6,832 reported delay minutes.
- 32%National Airspace System
- 32%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
32% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,186 minutes out of 6,832, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,832 delay minutes reported on DL 1295.
Cancellations are rare at 0.86%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
10.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 one other city pair in the data, including FLL to ATL (240), but none flew often enough under DL 1295 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to FLL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 349 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
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For a booking, read DL 1295 as 67.3% on time with 0.86% cancelled over 349 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- ATL to FLL, every carrier and departure
- FLL to ATL, the return direction
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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.