Flight number record
DL 3025
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Little Rock
- Route
- ATL → LIT
- Departs
- 17:45
- Flights
- 320
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3025, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 3025 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 320 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 316 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.25%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 320 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 320 flights, with 17:47 (46 flights) next.
- Departs 17:4565 flights20.3%
- Departs 17:4746 flights14.4%
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 17:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 3025 runs 10 points better at 77.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 3025 next to ATL to LIT
Every carrier on ATL to LIT combined arrived on time 84.6% of the time across 2,276 flights, so DL 3025 is 7 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 3025thin sample | 320 | 77.8% | 64 min | 1.25% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–LIT | 2,276 | 84.6% | 68 min | 1.98% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–LIT | 2,276 | 84.6% | 68 min | 1.98% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 3025 quarter by quarter
DL 3025 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 60.0%, a swing of 33 points on roughly 64 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 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights82.6%
- Jan–Mar 202661 flights80.0%
- Apr–Jun 202686 flights76.2%
- Jul–Sep 202651 flights60.0%
Scale runs 50% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 3025 did best on Wednesday at 88.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 62.5%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 3025 runs when it is late
DL 3025 often beats the schedule: 91 of 316 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 70 late arrivals split 23 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early91 flights28.8%
- Within 15 min155 flights49.1%
- 15–29 min late23 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late18 flights5.7%
- 2+ hours late11 flights3.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 316 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 68 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 3025
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 November 2025, 3 hours behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across November, April, December, May and June, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2025 | 3 hours | National Airspace System |
| 28 April 2026 | 2 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 2 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 May 2026 | 2 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 June 2026 | 2 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 3025 runs late
Carrier accounts for 45% of the 4,493 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,003 of the 4,493 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,493 delay minutes reported on DL 3025.
Cancellations sit at 1.25% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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 (229), 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. 320 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, DL 3025 is one of the weaker ways to fly ATL to LIT: 7 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.