Flight number record
DL 1315
Delta Air Lines · Houston to Atlanta
- Route
- IAH → ATL
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1315, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1315 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1315's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 110 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.64%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 1315 flies
DL 1315 flies IAH to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 198 of 365 flights, with 07:05 (82 flights) and 07:01 (41 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00198 flights54.2%
- Departs 07:0582 flights22.5%
- Departs 07:0141 flights11.2%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1315 runs level with that at 88.3%. 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 1315 next to IAH to ATL
Every carrier on IAH to ATL combined arrived on time 76.8% of the time across 4,960 flights, so DL 1315 is 12 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,543 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1315 | 365 | 88.3% | 70 min | 1.64% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on IAH–ATL | 2,543 | 80.4% | 70 min | 2.04% | B |
| All carriers on IAH–ATL | 4,960 | 76.8% | 68 min | 1.92% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1315 quarter by quarter
DL 1315 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.2%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 73 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.9%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1315 did best on Wednesday at 94.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1315 runs when it is late
DL 1315 often beats the schedule: 117 of 359 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 42 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early117 flights32.6%
- Within 15 min200 flights55.7%
- 15–29 min late17 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late7 flights1.9%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 38 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1315
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 February 2026, 6 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 February 2026 | 6 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 3 hours 27 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 8 March 2026 | 3 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 June 2026 | 2 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 March 2026 | 2 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1315 runs late
Carrier accounts for 69% of the 2,928 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%Carrier
- 29%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,031 of the 2,928 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,928 delay minutes reported on DL 1315.
Cancellations sit at 1.64% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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 689 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.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 1315 in the data flew IAH 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 1315
For a booking, read DL 1315 as 88.3% on time with 1.64% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- IAH to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to IAH, the return direction
- Frontier Airlines 1404 on the same route68.3%
- Delta Air Lines 1069 on the same route91.9%
- Delta Air Lines 1682 on the same route78.2%
- Delta Air Lines 1585 on the same route77.8%
- Delta Air Lines 1572 on the same route78.1%
- United Airlines 1030 on the same route90.6%
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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.