Flight number record

DL 3005

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Greensboro

Route: ATL → GSO
Departs: 22:40
Flights: 360
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3005, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 3005 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 50 minutes. That rests on 360 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 3005's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 67 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights

Avg delay

50 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.50%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 360 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 3005 flies

DL 3005 flies ATL to GSO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:40, used on 111 of 360 flights, with 22:45 (49 flights) and 22:43 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:40111 flights30.8%
Departs 22:4549 flights13.6%
Departs 22:4344 flights12.2%

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 22:40 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 3005 runs 14 points better at 84.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 3005 next to ATL to GSO

Every carrier on ATL to GSO combined arrived on time 83.8% of the time across 2,755 flights, so DL 3005 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 3005 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 3005thin sample	360	84.3%	50 min	2.50%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–GSO	2,755	83.8%	59 min	1.92%	B
All carriers on ATL–GSO	2,755	83.8%	59 min	1.92%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 3005 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 3005 held fairly steady: 81.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 86.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 80.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 88.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202590 flights81.1%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights86.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.8%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 3005 did best on Wednesday at 94.2% on time and worst on Monday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 3005 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 43% of the 2,753 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
43%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
National Airspace System
20%
Extreme weather
9%

The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, 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 1,189 of the 2,753 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,753 delay minutes reported on DL 3005.

Cancellations run at 2.50%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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 4.8% 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 360 flights under DL 3005 in the data flew ATL to GSO. 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. 360 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 3005

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 3005: 2.50% of its 360 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 50 minutes, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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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