Flight number record

DL 1385

Delta Air Lines · Fort Myers to Atlanta

Route: RSW → ATL
Departs: 05:35
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1385, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1385 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.4 hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1385's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 174 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

95.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights

Avg delay

141 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.37%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 1385 flies

DL 1385 flies RSW to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:35, used on 206 of 365 flights, with 05:30 (60 flights) and 05:40 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:35206 flights56.4%
Departs 05:3060 flights16.4%
Departs 05:4041 flights11.2%

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 05:35 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1385 runs 6 points better at 95.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 1385 next to RSW to ATL

Every carrier on RSW to ATL combined arrived on time 85.7% of the time across 2,843 flights, so DL 1385 is 9 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,740 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 13 points.

DL 1385 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1385	365	95.0%	141 min	1.37%	A
All Delta Air Lines on RSW–ATL	2,740	86.8%	83 min	1.50%	A
All carriers on RSW–ATL	2,843	85.7%	85 min	1.55%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1385 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1385 held fairly steady: 94.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 95.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 98.9% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights94.5%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights95.6%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights98.9%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1385 ranged from 90.0% on Monday to 100.0% on Friday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 1385 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 60% of the 2,542 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
60%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
National Airspace System
6%
Extreme weather
5%

The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, 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 1,523 of the 2,542 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,542 delay minutes reported on DL 1385.

Cancellations sit at 1.37% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.1% 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.

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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

Every one of the 365 flights under DL 1385 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. 365 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 1385

For a booking, DL 1385 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 95.0% on time and 1.37% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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