Flight number record

DL 1415

Delta Air Lines · Richmond to Atlanta

Route: RIC → ATL
Departs: 08:10
Flights: 354
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 13 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 354 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1415's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 127 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

90.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 349 completed flights

Avg delay

100 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.41%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 354 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 1415 flies

DL 1415 flies RIC to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:10, used on 117 of 354 flights, with 08:00 (115 flights) and 08:05 (77 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:10117 flights33.1%
Departs 08:00115 flights32.5%
Departs 08:0577 flights21.8%

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 08:10 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 1415 runs 6 points better 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.

Against the route

DL 1415 next to RIC to ATL

Every carrier on RIC to ATL combined arrived on time 88.7% of the time across 2,693 flights, so DL 1415 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,624 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 89.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 9 points.

DL 1415 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1415thin sample	354	90.3%	100 min	1.41%	A
All Delta Air Lines on RIC–ATL	2,624	89.3%	87 min	1.87%	A
All carriers on RIC–ATL	2,693	88.7%	89 min	1.89%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1415 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1415 held fairly steady: 89.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 91.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 91.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 2 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202582 flights89.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights91.2%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights89.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.2%

Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1415 did best on Thursday at 96.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 84.0%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1415 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 72% of the 3,398 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%
National Airspace System
21%
Late-arriving aircraft
6%
Extreme weather
1%

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 2,434 of the 3,398 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,398 delay minutes reported on DL 1415.

Cancellations sit at 1.41% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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 354 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. 354 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: 90.3% on time and 1.41% 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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