Flight number record

DL 1405

Delta Air Lines · Charlotte to Detroit

Route: CLT → DTW
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1405, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1405 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 close to two hours. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1405's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 171 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

94.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights

Avg delay

118 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.39%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 1405 flies

DL 1405 flies CLT to DTW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 274 of 361 flights, with 06:05 (87 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00274 flights75.9%
Departs 06:0587 flights24.1%

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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1405 runs 5 points better at 94.7%. 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 1405 next to CLT to DTW

Every carrier on CLT to DTW combined arrived on time 82.2% of the time across 3,535 flights, so DL 1405 is 13 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,344 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 88.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 13 points.

DL 1405 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1405thin sample	361	94.7%	118 min	1.39%	A
All Delta Air Lines on CLT–DTW	1,344	88.1%	84 min	1.34%	A
All carriers on CLT–DTW	3,535	82.2%	75 min	1.64%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1405 quarter by quarter

DL 1405 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 97.8% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 87.6%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 90 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 202592 flights97.8%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights87.6%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights97.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.5%

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

By weekday, DL 1405 ranged from 90.4% on Friday to 97.9% on Sunday. 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.

Delay causes

Why DL 1405 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 72% of the 2,243 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
72%
Late-arriving aircraft
15%
National Airspace System
14%

The largest share of delay minutes, 72%, 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 1,605 of the 2,243 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,243 delay minutes reported on DL 1405.

Cancellations sit at 1.39% 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 2.0% 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 500 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 361 flights under DL 1405 in the data flew CLT to DTW. 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. 361 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 1405

For a booking, DL 1405 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 94.7% on time and 1.39% 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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