Flight number record
DL 1528
Delta Air Lines · New York to Miami
- Route
- JFK → MIA
- Departs
- 07:05
- Flights
- 358
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1528, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1528 earns a B−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 358 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1528's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.91%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 358 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 1528 flies
DL 1528 flies JFK to MIA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:05, used on 143 of 358 flights, with 07:00 (68 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:05143 flights39.9%
- Departs 07:0068 flights19.0%
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 07:05 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1528 runs 5 points worse at 84.2%. 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 1528 next to JFK to MIA
Every carrier on JFK to MIA combined arrived on time 77.3% of the time across 4,553 flights, so DL 1528 is 7 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,620 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1528thin sample | 358 | 84.2% | 60 min | 3.91% | B− |
| All Delta Air Lines on JFK–MIA | 1,620 | 76.1% | 74 min | 3.21% | B− |
| All carriers on JFK–MIA | 4,553 | 77.3% | 93 min | 2.88% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 1528 quarter by quarter
DL 1528 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 91.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 73.6%, a swing of 18 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 flights90.9%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights73.6%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights80.2%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights91.9%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1528 did best on Wednesday at 90.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 77.6%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 1528 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 58% of the 3,217 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.
- 58%Carrier
- 42%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, 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 1,868 of the 3,217 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,217 delay minutes reported on DL 1528.
Cancellations run at 3.91%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.1% 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 1,089 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including MIA to JFK (78), but none flew often enough under DL 1528 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to JFK to MIA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 358 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 1528
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1528: 3.91% of its 358 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- JFK to MIA, every carrier and departure
- MIA to JFK, the return direction
- American Airlines 2017 on the same route86.0%
- Delta Air Lines 1514 on the same route79.2%
- Delta Air Lines 1428 on the same route68.2%
- Frontier Airlines 1809 on the same route79.4%
- American Airlines 688 on the same route77.6%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.