Flight number record
DL 1348
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Richmond
- Route
- ATL → RIC
- Departs
- 17:00
- Flights
- 346
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1348, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1348 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 346 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.16%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 346 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 36 of 346 flights.
- Departs 17:0036 flights10.4%
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 17:00 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 1348 runs 6 points better at 74.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 1348 next to ATL to RIC
Every carrier on ATL to RIC combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 2,668 flights, so DL 1348 is 7 points behind it. Delta flew 2,599 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1348thin sample | 346 | 74.3% | 56 min | 1.16% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–RIC | 2,599 | 82.1% | 57 min | 1.96% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–RIC | 2,668 | 81.6% | 57 min | 1.99% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 2026 at 56.5%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 69 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 flights76.7%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights75.6%
- Jan–Mar 202675 flights80.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights56.5%
Scale runs 50% to 85%.
By weekday, DL 1348 did best on Thursday at 87.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 60.9%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1348 runs when it is late
The 87 late arrivals split 37 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early26 flights7.7%
- Within 15 min226 flights66.7%
- 15–29 min late37 flights10.9%
- 30–59 min late25 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 339 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 78 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 6 made it up before arrival. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1348
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 July 2026, 3 hours 53 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 12 July 2026 | 3 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 April 2026 | 3 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 October 2025 | 3 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 September 2025 | 3 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 July 2026 | 3 hours 13 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 1348 runs late
Carrier accounts for 48% of the 4,891 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Carrier
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,336 of the 4,891 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,891 delay minutes reported on DL 1348.
Cancellations sit at 1.16% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.87%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.4% 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 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 (138), 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. 346 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, DL 1348 is one of the weaker ways to fly ATL to RIC: 7 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
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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.