Flight number record
DL 1402
Delta Air Lines · Richmond to Atlanta
- Route
- RIC → ATL
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 348
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1402, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1402 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1402's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 130 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 341 completed flights
Avg delay
121 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.72%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 348 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 1402 flies
DL 1402 flies RIC to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 78 of 348 flights, with 07:05 (50 flights) and 06:40 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 07:0078 flights22.4%
- Departs 07:0550 flights14.4%
- Departs 06:4036 flights10.3%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1402 runs level with that at 90.3%. 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 1402 next to RIC to ATL
Every carrier on RIC to ATL combined arrived on time 88.5% of the time across 2,668 flights, so DL 1402 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,599 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 89.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1402thin sample | 348 | 90.3% | 121 min | 1.72% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on RIC–ATL | 2,599 | 89.2% | 91 min | 2.00% | A |
| All carriers on RIC–ATL | 2,668 | 88.5% | 93 min | 2.02% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1402 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1402 held fairly steady: 85.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.7% in Jan–Mar 2026, 92.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 93.4% in Jul–Sep 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 202517 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights85.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights89.7%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights92.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.4%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1402 ranged from 87.8% on Sunday to 94.1% on Friday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1402 runs when it is late
DL 1402 often beats the schedule: 163 of 341 completed flights, 48%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 33 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early163 flights47.8%
- Within 15 min145 flights42.5%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.9%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.6%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 341 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
3 of 25 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1402
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 July 2026, 12 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2026 | 12 hours 59 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 12 November 2025 | 7 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 March 2026 | 5 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 5 hours 51 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 22 February 2026 | 5 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1402 runs late
Carrier accounts for 55% of the 3,994 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 19%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 3.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,994 delay minutes reported on DL 1402.
Cancellations sit at 1.72% against a national 1.89%, 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 3.5% 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.
Every one of the 348 flights under DL 1402 in the data flew RIC 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. 348 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 1402
For a booking, read DL 1402 as 90.3% on time with 1.72% cancelled over 348 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.