Flight number record
DL 1579
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Miami
- Route
- ATL → MIA
- Departs
- 12:15
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1579, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1579 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 1579 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 40 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights
Avg delay
52 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.83%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
9.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When DL 1579 flies
DL 1579 flies ATL to MIA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:15, used on 60 of 361 flights, with 12:20 (58 flights) and 12:52 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 12:1560 flights16.6%
- Departs 12:2058 flights16.1%
- Departs 12:5241 flights11.4%
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 12:15 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 1579 runs 5 points worse at 73.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
DL 1579 next to ATL to MIA
Every carrier on ATL to MIA combined arrived on time 71.0% of the time across 6,229 flights, so DL 1579 is 3 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,298 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1579thin sample | 361 | 73.6% | 52 min | 0.83% | C+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MIA | 3,298 | 70.3% | 56 min | 1.43% | C |
| All carriers on ATL–MIA | 6,229 | 71.0% | 71 min | 1.41% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 1579 quarter by quarter
DL 1579 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 89.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.8%, a swing of 21 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 flights68.9%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights67.8%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights68.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.0%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1579 did best on Tuesday at 78.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 63.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 1579 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 4,852 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.
- 47%Carrier
- 38%National Airspace System
- 12%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
38% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,831 minutes out of 4,852, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,852 delay minutes reported on DL 1579.
Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 594 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.
DL 1579 is not only a ATL to MIA flight. It also flew MIA to ATL (325 flights, 66.5% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIA to ATLthin sample | 325 | 66.5% | 81 min | 0.62% | C+ |
What to do with this
Booking DL 1579
For a booking, read DL 1579 as 73.6% on time with 0.83% cancelled over 361 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to MIA, every carrier and departure
- MIA to ATL, 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.