Flight number record

DL 1348

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Richmond

Route: ATL → RIC
Departs: 17:00
Flights: 340
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1348, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1348 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 340 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.

On time

76.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 330 completed flights

Avg delay

56 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.47%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 340 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 2 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 1348 flies

DL 1348 flies ATL to RIC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:00, used on 57 of 340 flights, with 17:05 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:0057 flights16.8%
Departs 17:0535 flights10.3%

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 17:00 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 1348 runs 8 points better at 76.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 1348 next to ATL to RIC

Every carrier on ATL to RIC combined arrived on time 81.2% of the time across 2,693 flights, so DL 1348 is 5 points behind it. Delta flew 2,624 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 5 points.

DL 1348 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1348thin sample	340	76.4%	56 min	1.47%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–RIC	2,624	81.6%	57 min	1.83%	B
All carriers on ATL–RIC	2,693	81.2%	57 min	1.86%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1348 quarter by quarter

DL 1348 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 69.9%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 85 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 202586 flights69.9%
Oct–Dec 202588 flights75.6%
Jan–Mar 202675 flights80.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.8%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1348 did best on Wednesday at 86.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 65.9%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1348 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 53% of the 4,351 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
53%
Late-arriving aircraft
24%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 53%, 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 2,305 of the 4,351 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,351 delay minutes reported on DL 1348.

Cancellations sit at 1.47% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.47%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.7% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including RIC to ATL (166), but none flew often enough under DL 1348 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to RIC only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 340 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 1348

For a booking, read DL 1348 as 76.4% on time with 1.47% cancelled over 340 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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