Flight number record
DL 3040
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Little Rock
- Route
- ATL → LIT
- Departs
- 10:31
- Flights
- 345
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3040, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 3040 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 345 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 3040's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 141 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 337 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.74%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 345 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 3040 flies
DL 3040 flies ATL to LIT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:31, used on 73 of 345 flights, with 09:44 (36 flights) and 10:42 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 10:3173 flights21.2%
- Departs 09:4436 flights10.4%
- Departs 10:4236 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 10:31 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 3040 runs 8 points better at 91.4%. 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 3040 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 3040 is 7 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 3040thin sample | 345 | 91.4% | 80 min | 1.74% | A |
| 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 3040 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 3040 held fairly steady: 86.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 91.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 94.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 91.2% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202586 flights91.7%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights90.4%
- Apr–Jun 202683 flights94.0%
- Jul–Sep 202657 flights91.2%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 3040 did best on Tuesday at 98.0% on time and worst on Monday at 86.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 3040 runs when it is late
DL 3040 often beats the schedule: 114 of 337 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 29 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early114 flights33.8%
- Within 15 min194 flights57.6%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.3%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.1%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.8%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 337 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 26 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 3040
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 January 2026, 7 hours 31 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 January 2026 | 7 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 March 2026 | 6 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 3 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 April 2026 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 March 2026 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 3040 runs late
Carrier accounts for 70% of the 2,319 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 70%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 9%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,625 of the 2,319 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,319 delay minutes reported on DL 3040.
Cancellations sit at 1.74% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.58%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.3% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 3040 is not only a ATL to LIT flight. It also flew LIT to ATL (345 flights, 91.1% 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. 345 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIT to ATLthin sample | 345 | 91.1% | 102 min | 1.45% | A |
What to do with this
Booking DL 3040
For a booking, read DL 3040 as 91.4% on time with 1.74% cancelled over 345 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.