Flight number record
DL 1415
Delta Air Lines · Richmond to Atlanta
- Route
- RIC → ATL
- Departs
- 08:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1415, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1415 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1415's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 135 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
99 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.37%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 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 1415 flies
DL 1415 flies RIC to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 142 of 364 flights, with 08:05 (111 flights) and 08:10 (65 flights) next.
- Departs 08:00142 flights39.0%
- Departs 08:05111 flights30.5%
- Departs 08:1065 flights17.9%
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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 1415 runs 7 points better at 90.8%. 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 1415 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 1415 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 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1415thin sample | 364 | 90.8% | 99 min | 1.37% | 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 1415 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1415 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 91.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 91.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 90.3% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights91.2%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights89.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.3%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1415 did best on Thursday at 98.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 84.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1415 runs when it is late
DL 1415 often beats the schedule: 156 of 359 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When DL 1415 is late it tends to be very late: 18 of its 33 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 9 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early156 flights43.5%
- Within 15 min170 flights47.4%
- 15–29 min late10 flights2.8%
- 30–59 min late5 flights1.4%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights2.5%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 36 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 12 still arrived on time. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1415
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 October 2025, 9 hours 36 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2025 | 9 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 March 2026 | 4 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 June 2026 | 3 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 3 hours 52 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 August 2026 | 3 hours 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 1415 runs late
Carrier accounts for 71% of the 3,267 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 71%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 71%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,335 of the 3,267 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,267 delay minutes reported on DL 1415.
Cancellations sit at 1.37% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
Every one of the 364 flights under DL 1415 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. 364 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 1415
For a booking, DL 1415 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.8% on time and 1.37% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- RIC to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to RIC, 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.