Flight number record

DL 1295

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale

Route: ATL → FLL
Departs: 16:44
Flights: 349
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%, so DL 1295 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 103 extra late arrivals.

On time

67.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.86%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 349 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.0% 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 1295 flies

DL 1295 flies ATL to FLL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:44, used on 70 of 349 flights, with 22:40 (55 flights) and 16:40 (55 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:4470 flights20.1%
Departs 22:4055 flights15.8%
Departs 16:4055 flights15.8%

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 16:44 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, 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.

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 7,189 flights, so DL 1295 is 3 points behind it. Delta flew 4,272 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 14 points.

DL 1295 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1295thin sample	349	67.3%	62 min	0.86%	C+
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–FLL	4,272	73.5%	55 min	1.57%	C
All carriers on ATL–FLL	7,189	70.7%	64 min	2.14%	C
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1295 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1295 held fairly steady: 64.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 71.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 63.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 70.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights64.8%
Oct–Dec 202588 flights71.3%
Jan–Mar 202682 flights63.0%
Apr–Jun 202688 flights70.1%

Scale runs 55% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1295 did best on Wednesday at 79.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 51.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

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 6,994 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
38%
National Airspace System
32%
Late-arriving aircraft
24%
Extreme weather
4%
Security
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, 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 2,691 of the 6,994 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,994 delay minutes reported on DL 1295.

Cancellations are rare at 0.86%, below the national 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. 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 one other city pair in the data, including FLL to ATL (219), 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

Booking DL 1295

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.

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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