Flight number record

DL 395

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Atlanta

Route: LAX → ATL
Departs: 14:35
Flights: 263
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 395, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 395 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 263 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

80.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 260 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.76%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 263 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 395 flies

DL 395 flies LAX to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:35, used on 80 of 263 flights, with 13:10 (38 flights) and 13:15 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:3580 flights30.4%
Departs 13:1038 flights14.4%
Departs 13:1531 flights11.8%

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 14:35 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 395 runs 8 points better at 80.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 395 next to LAX to ATL

Every carrier on LAX to ATL combined arrived on time 78.4% of the time across 5,013 flights, so DL 395 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,844 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 2 points.

DL 395 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 395thin sample	263	80.0%	58 min	0.76%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on LAX–ATL	3,844	81.5%	64 min	0.86%	B+
All carriers on LAX–ATL	5,013	78.4%	67 min	0.92%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 395 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 395 held fairly steady: 85.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 80.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202570 flights85.5%
Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights80.2%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 395 did best on Friday at 89.2% on time and worst on Wednesday at 63.9%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 395 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 44% of the 2,995 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
44%
Late-arriving aircraft
42%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
3%

42% 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 2,995 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 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 2,995 delay minutes reported on DL 395.

Cancellations are rare at 0.76%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.2% 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.

At 1,947 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including ATL to TRI (99), but none flew often enough under DL 395 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to ATL only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 263 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 395

For a booking, read DL 395 as 80.0% on time with 0.76% cancelled over 263 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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