Flight number record

DL 1565

Delta Air Lines · Little Rock to Atlanta

Route: LIT → ATL
Departs: 05:25
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1565, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1565 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 364 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1565's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 168 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

94.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights

Avg delay

107 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.37%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 1565 flies

DL 1565 flies LIT to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:25, used on 120 of 364 flights, with 05:30 (71 flights) and 05:35 (62 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:25120 flights33.0%
Departs 05:3071 flights19.5%
Departs 05:3562 flights17.0%

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 05:25 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1565 runs 5 points better at 94.4%. 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 1565 next to LIT to ATL

Every carrier on LIT to ATL combined arrived on time 89.1% of the time across 2,288 flights, so DL 1565 is 5 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 13 points.

DL 1565 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1565thin sample	364	94.4%	107 min	1.37%	A
All Delta Air Lines on LIT–ATL	2,288	89.1%	102 min	1.88%	A
All carriers on LIT–ATL	2,288	89.1%	102 min	1.88%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1565 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1565 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 96.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights96.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights89.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.7%

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

By weekday, DL 1565 ranged from 92.0% on Saturday to 100.0% on Friday. 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 1565 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 2,136 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
55%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
National Airspace System
12%
Extreme weather
10%

The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, 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 1,171 of the 2,136 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,136 delay minutes reported on DL 1565.

Cancellations sit at 1.37% 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 2.5% 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.

Every one of the 364 flights under DL 1565 in the data flew LIT 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 1565

For a booking, DL 1565 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 94.4% on time and 1.37% 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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