Flight number record

DL 1326

Delta Air Lines · Fort Lauderdale to Atlanta

Route: FLL → ATL
Departs: 08:05
Flights: 356
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1326, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1326 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 356 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1326's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 119 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights

Avg delay

99 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.84%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 356 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 1326 flies

DL 1326 flies FLL to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:05, used on 112 of 356 flights, with 07:40 (109 flights) and 08:00 (60 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:05112 flights31.5%
Departs 07:40109 flights30.6%
Departs 08:0060 flights16.9%

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 08:05 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 1326 runs 5 points better at 89.5%. 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 1326 next to FLL to ATL

Every carrier on FLL to ATL combined arrived on time 71.8% of the time across 7,185 flights, so DL 1326 is 18 points ahead of it. Delta flew 4,268 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

DL 1326 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1326thin sample	356	89.5%	99 min	0.84%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on FLL–ATL	4,268	78.9%	74 min	1.66%	B
All carriers on FLL–ATL	7,185	71.8%	73 min	2.25%	C
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1326 quarter by quarter

DL 1326 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.9%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 89 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 202587 flights93.1%
Oct–Dec 202588 flights89.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1326 ranged from 84.6% on Monday to 93.9% on Wednesday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 1326 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 71% of the 3,652 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
71%
National Airspace System
19%
Late-arriving aircraft
9%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 71%, 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 2,578 of the 3,652 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,652 delay minutes reported on DL 1326.

Cancellations are rare at 0.84%, 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

5.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

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.

Every one of the 356 flights under DL 1326 in the data flew FLL 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. 356 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 1326

For a booking, DL 1326 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.5% on time and 0.84% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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