Flight number record
DL 1361
Delta Air Lines · Fort Myers to Atlanta
- Route
- RSW → ATL
- Departs
- 06:45
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1361, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1361 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1361's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 169 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
99 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.10%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 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 1361 flies
DL 1361 flies RSW to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:45, used on 81 of 364 flights, with 06:58 (52 flights) and 06:35 (48 flights) next.
- Departs 06:4581 flights22.3%
- Departs 06:5852 flights14.3%
- Departs 06:3548 flights13.2%
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 06:45 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1361 runs 5 points better at 94.2%. 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 1361 next to RSW to ATL
Every carrier on RSW to ATL combined arrived on time 85.4% of the time across 2,806 flights, so DL 1361 is 9 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,720 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1361thin sample | 364 | 94.2% | 99 min | 1.10% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on RSW–ATL | 2,720 | 86.3% | 82 min | 1.58% | A |
| All carriers on RSW–ATL | 2,806 | 85.4% | 83 min | 1.64% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1361 quarter by quarter
DL 1361 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 87.4%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 73 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 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights94.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights98.3%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1361 ranged from 90.4% on Wednesday to 98.1% on Friday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1361 runs when it is late
DL 1361 often beats the schedule: 149 of 359 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 11 of the 21 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 7 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early149 flights41.5%
- Within 15 min189 flights52.6%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.1%
- 30–59 min late3 flights0.8%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.1%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 17 of 359 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1361
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 May 2026, 13 hours 40 minutes 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2026 | 13 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 March 2026 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 December 2025 | 3 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 February 2026 | 1 hour 52 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 March 2026 | 1 hour 25 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1361 runs late
Carrier accounts for 84% of the 2,085 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 84%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
- 6%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 84%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,752 of the 2,085 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,085 delay minutes reported on DL 1361.
Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.9% 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 515 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.
Every one of the 364 flights under DL 1361 in the data flew RSW to ATL. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 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 1361
For a booking, DL 1361 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 94.2% on time and 1.10% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- RSW to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to RSW, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1395 on the same route90.4%
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- Delta Air Lines 1196 on the same route80.6%
- Delta Air Lines 1153 on the same route79.4%
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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.