Flight number record

DL 3061

Delta Air Lines · Columbia to Atlanta

Route: CAE → ATL
Departs: 06:40
Flights: 289
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3061, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 3061 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 3.1 hours. That rests on 289 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 3061's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 151 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

92.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 286 completed flights

Avg delay

184 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.04%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 289 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 3061 flies

DL 3061 flies CAE to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:40, used on 93 of 289 flights, with 06:50 (58 flights) and 06:45 (45 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:4093 flights32.2%
Departs 06:5058 flights20.1%
Departs 06:4545 flights15.6%

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 06:40 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 3061 runs 3 points better at 92.7%. 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 3061 next to CAE to ATL

Every carrier on CAE to ATL combined arrived on time 87.6% of the time across 1,871 flights, so DL 3061 is 5 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,867 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

DL 3061 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 3061thin sample	289	92.7%	184 min	1.04%	A
All Delta Air Lines on CAE–ATL	1,867	87.6%	89 min	1.39%	A
All carriers on CAE–ATL	1,871	87.6%	89 min	1.39%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 3061 quarter by quarter

DL 3061 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 95.7% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.6%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 72 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 202592 flights95.7%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights93.7%
Jan–Mar 202662 flights95.0%
Apr–Jun 202655 flights83.6%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 3061 ranged from 87.5% on Saturday to 95.2% on Tuesday. With about 41 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 3061 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 83% of the 3,856 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
83%
Late-arriving aircraft
14%
National Airspace System
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 83%, 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 3,219 of the 3,856 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,856 delay minutes reported on DL 3061.

Cancellations sit at 1.04% against a national 1.81%, 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 3.8% 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.

Every one of the 289 flights under DL 3061 in the data flew CAE to ATL. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 289 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 3061

For a booking, DL 3061 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.7% on time and 1.04% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

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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