Flight number record
DL 1338
Delta Air Lines · Norfolk to Atlanta
- Route
- ORF → ATL
- Departs
- 08:00
- Flights
- 267
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1338, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1338 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 13 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 267 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1338's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 125 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 265 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.75%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 267 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 1338 flies
DL 1338 flies ORF to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 112 of 267 flights, with 08:30 (39 flights) next.
- Departs 08:00112 flights41.9%
- Departs 08:3039 flights14.6%
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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 1338 runs 6 points better at 89.8%. 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 1338 next to ORF to ATL
Every carrier on ORF to ATL combined arrived on time 85.1% of the time across 2,946 flights, so DL 1338 is 5 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,687 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1338thin sample | 267 | 89.8% | 81 min | 0.75% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on ORF–ATL | 2,687 | 85.9% | 83 min | 1.45% | A |
| All carriers on ORF–ATL | 2,946 | 85.1% | 83 min | 1.53% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1338 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1338 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 91.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights88.0%
- Jan–Mar 20264 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights87.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.9%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1338 did best on Thursday at 100.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 81.6%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1338 runs when it is late
DL 1338 often beats the schedule: 104 of 265 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 27 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early104 flights39.2%
- Within 15 min134 flights50.6%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.6%
- 30–59 min late8 flights3.0%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 265 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 30 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1338
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 October 2025, 4 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 October 2025 | 4 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 July 2026 | 4 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 3 hours 36 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 2 December 2025 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 April 2026 | 2 hours 2 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 1338 runs late
Carrier accounts for 74% of the 2,178 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 74%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 74%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,622 of the 2,178 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,178 delay minutes reported on DL 1338.
Cancellations are rare at 0.75%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 516 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 two other city pairs in the data, including TPA to DTW (62) and SAT to LAX (31), but none flew often enough under DL 1338 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORF to ATL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 267 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 1338
For a booking, DL 1338 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.8% on time and 0.75% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- ORF to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to ORF, 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.