Flight number record
DL 3048
Delta Air Lines · Panama City to Atlanta
- Route
- ECP → ATL
- Departs
- 09:19
- Flights
- 353
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3048, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 3048 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 about an hour. That rests on 353 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 3048's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 129 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.70%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 353 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 3048 flies
DL 3048 flies ECP to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:19, used on 57 of 353 flights, with 09:25 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 09:1957 flights16.1%
- Departs 09:2536 flights10.2%
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 09:19 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 3048 runs 6 points better at 90.2%. 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 3048 next to ECP to ATL
Every carrier on ECP to ATL combined arrived on time 85.8% of the time across 2,421 flights, so DL 3048 is 4 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 3048thin sample | 353 | 90.2% | 66 min | 1.70% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on ECP–ATL | 2,421 | 85.8% | 82 min | 2.02% | A |
| All carriers on ECP–ATL | 2,421 | 85.8% | 82 min | 2.02% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 3048 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 3048 held fairly steady: 89.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.1% in Jan–Mar 2026, 91.1% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 91.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202584 flights89.0%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights88.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.9%
Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 3048 did best on Wednesday at 98.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 83.7%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 3048 runs when it is late
DL 3048 often beats the schedule: 121 of 347 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 34 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early121 flights34.9%
- Within 15 min192 flights55.3%
- 15–29 min late12 flights3.5%
- 30–59 min late9 flights2.6%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 347 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 37 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. Only 1 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 3048
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 September 2025, 4 hours 1 minute behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2025 | 4 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 21 July 2026 | 4 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 January 2026 | 2 hours 29 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 April 2026 | 2 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 October 2025 | 2 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 3048 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 69% of the 2,249 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Carrier
- 11%Extreme weather
- 5%National Airspace System
69% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,249 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 2,249 delay minutes reported on DL 3048.
Cancellations sit at 1.70% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.7% 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 3048 is not only a ECP to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to ECP (353 flights, 91.6% 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. 353 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 ECPthin sample | 353 | 91.6% | 63 min | 1.42% | A |
What to do with this
Booking DL 3048
For a booking, read DL 3048 as 90.2% on time with 1.70% cancelled over 353 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.