Flight number record

DL 3070

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Wilmington

Route: ATL → ILM
Departs: 22:40
Flights: 303
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3070, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 3070 lands a B, 2 points 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 303 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

On time

79.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 299 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.32%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 303 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 3070 flies

DL 3070 flies ATL to ILM without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:40, used on 59 of 303 flights, with 21:19 (33 flights) and 21:45 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:4059 flights19.5%
Departs 21:1933 flights10.9%
Departs 21:4531 flights10.2%

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 22:40 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 3070 runs 9 points better at 79.6%. 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 3070 next to ATL to ILM

Every carrier on ATL to ILM combined arrived on time 84.2% of the time across 1,148 flights, so DL 3070 is 5 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 2 points.

DL 3070 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 3070thin sample	303	79.6%	67 min	1.32%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–ILM	1,148	84.2%	65 min	1.05%	B
All carriers on ATL–ILM	1,148	84.2%	65 min	1.05%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 3070 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 3070 held fairly steady: 73.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.2% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 82.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights73.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.2%
Jan–Mar 202628 flights—
Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.2%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 3070 did best on Wednesday at 88.4% on time and worst on Thursday at 72.1%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 3070 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 58% of the 4,072 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
58%
Late-arriving aircraft
35%
Extreme weather
4%
National Airspace System
4%

35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,072 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 4,072 delay minutes reported on DL 3070.

Cancellations sit at 1.32% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.0% 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.

Every one of the 303 flights under DL 3070 in the data flew ATL to ILM. 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. 303 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 3070

For a booking, read DL 3070 as 79.6% on time with 1.32% cancelled over 303 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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