Flight number record
DL 1405
Delta Air Lines · Charlotte to Detroit
- Route
- CLT → DTW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. 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 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 165 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
113 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.94%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 1405 flies
DL 1405 is scheduled to leave Charlotte (CLT) at 06:00 local time and reach Detroit (DTW) at 07:52. That slot held for 295 of the 361 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 06:00295 flights81.7%
- Departs 06:0566 flights18.3%
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 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 93.8%. 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 1405 next to CLT to DTW
Every carrier on CLT to DTW combined arrived on time 81.7% of the time across 3,475 flights, so DL 1405 is 12 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,341 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 1405thin sample | 361 | 93.8% | 113 min | 1.94% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on CLT–DTW | 1,341 | 86.3% | 84 min | 1.57% | A |
| All carriers on CLT–DTW | 3,475 | 81.7% | 78 min | 1.76% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 100.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 87.6%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 72 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 202589 flights87.6%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights97.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.7%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1405 ranged from 90.2% 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1405 runs when it is late
DL 1405 often beats the schedule: 145 of 354 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 22 late arrivals split 6 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early145 flights41.0%
- Within 15 min187 flights52.8%
- 15–29 min late6 flights1.7%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.3%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.6%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 20 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1405
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 December 2025, 13 hours 8 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 December 2025 | 13 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 April 2026 | 5 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 December 2025 | 3 hours 57 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 4 December 2025 | 3 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 July 2026 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1405 runs late
Carrier accounts for 73% of the 2,483 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 73%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 73%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,806 of the 2,483 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,483 delay minutes reported on DL 1405.
Cancellations sit at 1.94% against a national 1.89%, 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 2.3% 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 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.
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
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For a booking, read DL 1405 as 93.8% on time with 1.94% cancelled over 361 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
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- DTW to CLT, the return direction
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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.