Flight number record

DL 32

Delta Air Lines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Atlanta

Route: DFW → ATL
Departs: 16:04
Flights: 324
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 32, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 32 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 324 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

On time

74.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 318 completed flights

Avg delay

77 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.85%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 324 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

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 324 flights, with 15:45 (40 flights) and 16:23 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:0456 flights17.3%
Departs 15:4540 flights12.3%
Departs 16:2336 flights11.1%

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 16:04 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 32 runs 2 points better at 74.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 32 next to DFW to ATL

Every carrier on DFW to ATL combined arrived on time 75.8% of the time across 6,703 flights, so DL 32 is about level with it. Delta flew 2,792 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 7 points.

DL 32 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 32thin sample	324	74.8%	77 min	1.85%	C
All Delta Air Lines on DFW–ATL	2,792	82.8%	82 min	2.54%	B
All carriers on DFW–ATL	6,703	75.8%	73 min	2.79%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 32 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 32 held fairly steady: 69.6% 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 202592 flights69.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.9%
Jan–Mar 202678 flights74.7%
Apr–Jun 202662 flights77.0%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 32 did best on Thursday at 83.3% on time and worst on Tuesday at 65.2%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 32 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 62% of the 6,169 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
62%
National Airspace System
17%
Carrier
16%
Extreme weather
5%

62% 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 6,169 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 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 6,169 delay minutes reported on DL 32.

Cancellations sit at 1.85% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

Every one of the 324 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. 324 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 74.8% on time with 1.85% cancelled over 324 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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