Flight number record

DL 1359

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Panama City

Route: ATL → ECP
Departs: 12:39
Flights: 339
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 339 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1359's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 330 completed flights

Avg delay

45 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.36%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 339 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 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 339 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:3960 flights17.7%

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 12:39 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 1359 runs 6 points better at 84.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 1359 next to ATL to ECP

Every carrier on ATL to ECP combined arrived on time 84.0% of the time across 2,426 flights, so DL 1359 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 1359 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1359thin sample	339	84.8%	45 min	2.36%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–ECP	2,426	84.0%	57 min	1.81%	B
All carriers on ATL–ECP	2,426	84.0%	57 min	1.81%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1359 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1359 held fairly steady: 86.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 83.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202582 flights86.4%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights84.8%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights85.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.1%

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1359 did best on Thursday at 95.9% on time and worst on Friday at 72.9%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1359 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 61% of the 2,270 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
61%
Late-arriving aircraft
22%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 61%, 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 1,377 of the 2,270 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,270 delay minutes reported on DL 1359.

Cancellations sit at 2.36% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 (339 flights, 84.0% 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. 339 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.

Other routes flown as DL 1359
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ECP to ATLthin sample	339	84.0%	86 min	2.06%	B

What to do with this

Booking DL 1359

For a booking, read DL 1359 as 84.8% on time with 2.36% cancelled over 339 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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