Flight number record

DL 1396

Delta Air Lines · Little Rock to Atlanta

Route: LIT → ATL
Departs: 07:30
Flights: 347
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1396, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1396 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 347 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1396's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 156 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

93.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights

Avg delay

97 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.31%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 347 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 1396 flies

DL 1396 flies LIT to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:30, used on 127 of 347 flights, with 07:00 (40 flights) and 07:22 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:30127 flights36.6%
Departs 07:0040 flights11.5%
Departs 07:2236 flights10.4%

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 07:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1396 runs 4 points better at 93.2%. 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 1396 next to LIT to ATL

Every carrier on LIT to ATL combined arrived on time 89.1% of the time across 2,288 flights, so DL 1396 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 12 points.

DL 1396 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1396thin sample	347	93.2%	97 min	2.31%	A
All Delta Air Lines on LIT–ATL	2,288	89.1%	102 min	1.88%	A
All carriers on LIT–ATL	2,288	89.1%	102 min	1.88%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1396 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1396 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 93.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights96.7%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights87.2%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights94.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.3%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1396 did best on Saturday at 100.0% on time and worst on Monday at 80.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1396 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 2,234 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
50%
Extreme weather
42%
National Airspace System
7%

Extreme weather accounts for 42% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 6.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,234 delay minutes reported on DL 1396.

Cancellations sit at 2.31% 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 4.1% 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.

Every one of the 347 flights under DL 1396 in the data flew LIT 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. 347 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 1396

For a booking, read DL 1396 as 93.2% on time with 2.31% cancelled over 347 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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