Flight number record
DL 3033
Delta Air Lines · Little Rock to Atlanta
- Route
- LIT → ATL
- Departs
- 09:36
- Flights
- 356
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 356 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 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 128 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights
Avg delay
108 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.09%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 356 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 356 flights, with 09:26 (51 flights) and 09:35 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 09:3656 flights15.7%
- Departs 09:2651 flights14.3%
- Departs 09:3537 flights10.4%
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 09:36 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 3033 runs 6 points better at 90.1%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 3033 next to LIT to ATL
Every carrier on LIT to ATL combined arrived on time 88.5% of the time across 2,276 flights, so DL 3033 is 2 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 3033thin sample | 356 | 90.1% | 108 min | 3.09% | A− |
| All Delta Air Lines on LIT–ATL | 2,276 | 88.5% | 103 min | 2.07% | A |
| All carriers on LIT–ATL | 2,276 | 88.5% | 103 min | 2.07% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 100.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 86.4%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 71 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 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights86.4%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights90.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.9%
- Jul–Sep 202657 flights89.1%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 3033 did best on Thursday at 96.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 82.9%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 3033 runs when it is late
DL 3033 often beats the schedule: 236 of 345 completed flights, 68%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When DL 3033 is late it tends to be very late: 18 of its 34 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 8 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early236 flights68.4%
- Within 15 min75 flights21.7%
- 15–29 min late8 flights2.3%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.3%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights2.9%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 345 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 40 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. Only 1 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 3033
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 June 2026, 9 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2026 | 9 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 August 2026 | 7 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 November 2025 | 5 hours | Carrier |
| 9 August 2026 | 4 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 August 2026 | 3 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 3033 runs late
Carrier accounts for 49% of the 3,658 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Carrier
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,658 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 3,658 delay minutes reported on DL 3033.
Cancellations run at 3.09%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
5.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
DL 3033 is not only a LIT to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to LIT (354 flights, 92.1% 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. 356 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL to LITthin sample | 354 | 92.1% | 67 min | 3.95% | A− |
What to do with this
Booking DL 3033
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 3033: 3.09% of its 356 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- LIT to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to LIT, the return direction
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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.