Flight number record
DL 1359
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Panama City
- Route
- ATL → ECP
- Departs
- 12:39
- Flights
- 349
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1359, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1359 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 40 minutes. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1359's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 71 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights
Avg delay
42 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.58%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 349 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 1359 flies
DL 1359 flies ATL to ECP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:39, used on 60 of 349 flights, with 12:43 (47 flights) next.
- Departs 12:3960 flights17.2%
- Departs 12:4347 flights13.5%
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 12:39 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 1359 runs 6 points better at 84.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 1359 next to ATL to ECP
Every carrier on ATL to ECP combined arrived on time 83.2% of the time across 2,421 flights, so DL 1359 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1359thin sample | 349 | 84.4% | 42 min | 2.58% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–ECP | 2,421 | 83.2% | 61 min | 1.94% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–ECP | 2,421 | 83.2% | 61 min | 1.94% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1359 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1359 held fairly steady: 84.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 83.1% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 83.6% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 2 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights84.8%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights85.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.6%
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1359 did best on Thursday at 96.0% on time and worst on Friday at 75.5%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1359 runs when it is late
The 53 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early51 flights15.0%
- Within 15 min235 flights69.3%
- 15–29 min late26 flights7.7%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.3%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.4%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 339 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 49 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1359
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 March 2026, 3 hours 1 minute 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 27 March 2026 | 3 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 1 February 2026 | 1 hour 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 March 2026 | 1 hour 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 April 2026 | 1 hour 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 August 2026 | 1 hour 21 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1359 runs late
Carrier accounts for 57% of the 2,230 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,277 of the 2,230 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,230 delay minutes reported on DL 1359.
Cancellations run at 2.58%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.7% 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.
DL 1359 is not only a ATL to ECP flight. It also flew ECP to ATL (349 flights, 83.6% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 349 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECP to ATLthin sample | 349 | 83.6% | 89 min | 2.29% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 1359
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1359: 2.58% of its 349 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs roughly 40 minutes, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to ECP, every carrier and departure
- ECP to ATL, 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.