Flight number record
DL 32
Delta Air Lines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Atlanta
- Route
- DFW → ATL
- Departs
- 16:04
- Flights
- 262
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 32, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 32 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 262 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 256 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.29%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 262 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 32 flies
DL 32 flies DFW to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:04, used on 56 of 262 flights, with 15:45 (40 flights) and 16:23 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 16:0456 flights21.4%
- Departs 15:4540 flights15.3%
- Departs 16:2336 flights13.7%
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 16:04 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 32 runs 6 points better at 77.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 32 next to DFW to ATL
Every carrier on DFW to ATL combined arrived on time 75.6% of the time across 6,672 flights, so DL 32 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,785 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 32thin sample | 262 | 77.7% | 77 min | 2.29% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on DFW–ATL | 2,785 | 83.5% | 83 min | 2.59% | B |
| All carriers on DFW–ATL | 6,672 | 75.6% | 74 min | 2.52% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 32 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 32 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 78.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 74.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 77.0% 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 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.9%
- Jan–Mar 202678 flights74.7%
- Apr–Jun 202662 flights77.0%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 32 did best on Thursday at 87.2% on time and worst on Tuesday at 70.3%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 32 runs when it is late
DL 32 often beats the schedule: 90 of 256 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 57 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early90 flights35.2%
- Within 15 min109 flights42.6%
- 15–29 min late16 flights6.3%
- 30–59 min late16 flights6.3%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights5.5%
- 2+ hours late11 flights4.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 256 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 67 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 30% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 32
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 5 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 5 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 April 2026 | 4 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 4 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 May 2026 | 4 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 October 2025 | 3 hours 24 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why DL 32 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 4,400 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,400 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 19 to one. The split is drawn from 4,400 delay minutes reported on DL 32.
Cancellations sit at 2.29% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 731 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
Every one of the 262 flights under DL 32 in the data flew DFW 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. 262 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 32
For a booking, read DL 32 as 77.7% on time with 2.29% cancelled over 262 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.