Flight number record
DL 371
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to New York
- Route
- ATL → LGA
- Departs
- 10:30
- Flights
- 346
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 371, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 371 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 346 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 371's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 74 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 334 completed flights
Avg delay
43 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.89%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 346 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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.
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Schedule
When DL 371 flies
DL 371 is scheduled to leave Atlanta (ATL) at 10:30 local time and reach New York (LGA) at 12:42. That slot held for 330 of the 346 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 10:30330 flights95.4%
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 10:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 371 runs level with that at 84.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 371 next to ATL to LGA
Every carrier on ATL to LGA combined arrived on time 72.3% of the time across 8,502 flights, so DL 371 is 12 points ahead of it. Delta flew 4,937 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 371thin sample | 346 | 84.7% | 43 min | 2.89% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–LGA | 4,937 | 75.9% | 66 min | 3.48% | B− |
| All carriers on ATL–LGA | 8,502 | 72.3% | 79 min | 4.34% | C− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 371 quarter by quarter
DL 371 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 76.2%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 69 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 202530 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202582 flights76.2%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights80.0%
- Apr–Jun 202683 flights93.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights82.5%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 371 ranged from 79.6% on Sunday to 90.4% on Friday. With about 49 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 371 runs when it is late
The 51 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early55 flights16.5%
- Within 15 min228 flights68.3%
- 15–29 min late24 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late15 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.0%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 334 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 52 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 371
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 December 2025, 3 hours 21 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 December 2025 | 3 hours 21 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 5 December 2025 | 2 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 October 2025 | 1 hour 46 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 27 August 2026 | 1 hour 36 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 23 October 2025 | 1 hour 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 371 runs late
Carrier accounts for 46% of the 2,199 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Carrier
- 39%National Airspace System
- 11%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,016 of the 2,199 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,199 delay minutes reported on DL 371.
Cancellations run at 2.89%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.
The 762 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 346 flights under DL 371 in the data flew ATL to LGA. 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. 346 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 371
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 371: 2.89% of its 346 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs roughly 45 minutes, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to LGA, every carrier and departure
- LGA to ATL, the return direction
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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.