Flight number record

DL 1741

Delta Air Lines · El Paso to Atlanta

Route: ELP → ATL
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 364
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1741, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1741 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 15 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 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1741's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 148 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

92.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights

Avg delay

89 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.20%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

2.8%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 1741 flies

DL 1741 is scheduled to leave El Paso (ELP) at 06:00 local time and reach Atlanta (ATL) at 10:54. That slot held for 364 of the 364 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.

Departs 06:00364 flights100.0%

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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1741 runs 3 points better at 92.1%. 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 1741 next to ELP to ATL

Every carrier on ELP to ATL combined arrived on time 88.3% of the time across 726 flights, so DL 1741 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

DL 1741 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1741thin sample	364	92.1%	89 min	2.20%	A
All Delta Air Lines on ELP–ATL	726	88.3%	104 min	1.79%	A
All carriers on ELP–ATL	726	88.3%	104 min	1.79%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 1741 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1741 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.6% in Jan–Mar 2026, 92.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 94.8% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights96.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights90.1%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights90.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%
Jul–Sep 202661 flights94.8%

Scale runs 80% to 100%.

By weekday, DL 1741 ranged from 87.8% on Sunday to 96.2% on Thursday. 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.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 1741 runs when it is late

DL 1741 often beats the schedule: 108 of 355 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 28 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.

15+ min early108 flights30.4%
Within 15 min219 flights61.7%
15–29 min late10 flights2.8%
30–59 min late8 flights2.3%
1–2 hours late3 flights0.8%
2+ hours late7 flights2.0%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 355 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

3 of 23 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 1741

The latest arrival of the period was on 15 December 2025, 8 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of DL 1741 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
15 December 2025	8 hours 23 minutes	Carrier
10 January 2026	6 hours 30 minutes	Carrier
3 October 2025	3 hours 32 minutes	Carrier
9 March 2026	3 hours 17 minutes	Carrier
27 May 2026	2 hours 47 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 1741 runs late

Carrier accounts for 88% of the 2,500 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
88%
National Airspace System
12%

The largest share of delay minutes, 88%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,206 of the 2,500 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,500 delay minutes reported on DL 1741.

Cancellations sit at 2.20% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 1,282 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.

Every one of the 364 flights under DL 1741 in the data flew ELP 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 1741

For a booking, read DL 1741 as 92.1% on time with 2.20% cancelled over 364 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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