Flight number record

DL 3033

Delta Air Lines · Little Rock to Atlanta

Route: LIT → ATL
Departs: 09:36
Flights: 354
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3033, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 3033 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 354 flights, with a median arrival 19 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 3033's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 134 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights

Avg delay

89 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.54%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 354 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 19 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 3033 flies

DL 3033 flies LIT to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:36, used on 56 of 354 flights, with 09:26 (46 flights) and 09:35 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:3656 flights15.8%
Departs 09:2646 flights13.0%
Departs 09:3537 flights10.5%

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 09:36 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 3033 runs 7 points better at 91.0%. 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 3033 next to LIT to ATL

Every carrier on LIT to ATL combined arrived on time 89.1% of the time across 2,288 flights, so DL 3033 is 2 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 9 points.

DL 3033 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 3033thin sample	354	91.0%	89 min	2.54%	A
All Delta Air Lines on LIT–ATL	2,288	89.1%	102 min	1.88%	A
All carriers on LIT–ATL	2,288	89.1%	102 min	1.88%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 3033 quarter by quarter

DL 3033 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 86.4%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 89 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 202585 flights96.5%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights86.4%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights90.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.9%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 3033 did best on Friday at 95.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 79.5%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 3033 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 48% of the 2,762 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
48%
Late-arriving aircraft
43%
National Airspace System
7%
Extreme weather
2%

43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 2,762 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 21 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 2,762 delay minutes reported on DL 3033.

Cancellations run at 2.54%, 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 4.3% 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.

DL 3033 is not only a LIT to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to LIT (352 flights, 92.6% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 354 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.

Other routes flown as DL 3033
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ATL to LITthin sample	352	92.6%	59 min	3.41%	A−

What to do with this

Booking DL 3033

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 3033: 2.54% of its 354 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, 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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