Flight number record

DL 3059

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Pensacola

Route: ATL → PNS
Departs: 19:10
Flights: 277
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3059, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 3059 lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 277 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

On time

78.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 271 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.17%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 277 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 3059 flies

DL 3059 flies ATL to PNS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:10, used on 34 of 277 flights, with 18:13 (33 flights) and 18:31 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:1034 flights12.3%
Departs 18:1333 flights11.9%
Departs 18:3131 flights11.2%

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 19:10 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 3059 runs 10 points better at 78.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 3059 next to ATL to PNS

Every carrier on ATL to PNS combined arrived on time 83.7% of the time across 2,803 flights, so DL 3059 is 5 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

DL 3059 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 3059thin sample	277	78.6%	62 min	2.17%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–PNS	2,803	83.7%	60 min	1.75%	B
All carriers on ATL–PNS	2,803	83.7%	60 min	1.75%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 3059 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 3059 held fairly steady: 79.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.0% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 75.9% in Apr–Jun 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 202592 flights79.1%
Oct–Dec 202571 flights80.0%
Jan–Mar 202624 flights—
Apr–Jun 202690 flights75.9%

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 3059 did best on Sunday at 86.8% on time and worst on Friday at 71.1%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 3059 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 46% of the 3,612 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
46%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
7%

The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,661 of the 3,612 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,612 delay minutes reported on DL 3059.

Cancellations sit at 2.17% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including PNS to ATL (84), but none flew often enough under DL 3059 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to PNS only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 277 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 3059

For a booking, DL 3059 is one of the weaker ways to fly ATL to PNS: 5 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.

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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