Flight number record

DL 3025

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Little Rock

Route: ATL → LIT
Departs: 17:45
Flights: 325
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3025, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 3025 lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 325 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

On time

80.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 322 completed flights

Avg delay

66 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.92%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 325 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% 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 3025 flies

DL 3025 flies ATL to LIT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:45, used on 65 of 325 flights, with 17:47 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:4565 flights20.0%
Departs 17:4746 flights14.2%

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 17:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 3025 runs 13 points better at 80.7%. 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 3025 next to ATL to LIT

Every carrier on ATL to LIT combined arrived on time 85.4% of the time across 2,288 flights, so DL 3025 is 5 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 3025 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 3025thin sample	325	80.7%	66 min	0.92%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–LIT	2,288	85.4%	67 min	1.84%	A
All carriers on ATL–LIT	2,288	85.4%	67 min	1.84%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 3025 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 3025 held fairly steady: 83.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 82.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 80.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 76.2% 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 202586 flights83.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights82.6%
Jan–Mar 202661 flights80.0%
Apr–Jun 202686 flights76.2%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 3025 did best on Wednesday at 93.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 70.8%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 3025 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 43% of the 4,096 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
30%
National Airspace System
22%
Extreme weather
4%

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 1,771 of the 4,096 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,096 delay minutes reported on DL 3025.

Cancellations sit at 0.92% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

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. 9.0% 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 same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including LIT to ATL (246), but none flew often enough under DL 3025 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to LIT only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 325 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 3025

For a booking, read DL 3025 as 80.7% on time with 0.92% cancelled over 325 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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