Flight number record

DL 3009

Delta Air Lines · Huntsville to Atlanta

Route: HSV → ATL
Departs: 07:15
Flights: 349
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3009, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 3009 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 3009's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 140 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights

Avg delay

74 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.43%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 349 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 3009 flies

DL 3009 flies HSV to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:15, used on 86 of 349 flights, with 07:00 (73 flights) and 07:45 (62 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:1586 flights24.6%
Departs 07:0073 flights20.9%
Departs 07:4562 flights17.8%

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 07:15 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 3009 runs 2 points better at 91.6%. 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 3009 next to HSV to ATL

Every carrier on HSV to ATL combined arrived on time 90.1% of the time across 2,237 flights, so DL 3009 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,230 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 90.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

DL 3009 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 3009thin sample	349	91.6%	74 min	1.43%	A
All Delta Air Lines on HSV–ATL	2,230	90.1%	79 min	1.84%	A
All carriers on HSV–ATL	2,237	90.1%	79 min	1.83%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 3009 quarter by quarter

DL 3009 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 98.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 82.5%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 87 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 flights98.9%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights82.5%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights92.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.2%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 3009 ranged from 85.7% on Monday to 96.0% on Wednesday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 3009 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 66% of the 2,140 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
66%
National Airspace System
25%
Extreme weather
9%

The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, 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 1,408 of the 2,140 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,140 delay minutes reported on DL 3009.

Cancellations sit at 1.43% 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 2.9% 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 349 flights under DL 3009 in the data flew HSV 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. 349 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 3009

For a booking, DL 3009 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.6% on time and 1.43% 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.

Key figures