Flight number record

DL 414

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: ATL → DFW
Departs: 11:00
Flights: 340
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 414, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 414 lands a B+, 4 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 340 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

81.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 336 completed flights

Avg delay

61 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.88%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 340 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 414 flies

DL 414 flies ATL to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 58 of 340 flights, with 11:06 (53 flights) and 11:28 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:0058 flights17.1%
Departs 11:0653 flights15.6%
Departs 11:2849 flights14.4%

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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 414 runs 2 points better at 81.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 414 next to ATL to DFW

Every carrier on ATL to DFW combined arrived on time 74.3% of the time across 6,698 flights, so DL 414 is 7 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,791 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 414 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 414thin sample	340	81.2%	61 min	0.88%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–DFW	2,791	75.4%	57 min	2.51%	B
All carriers on ATL–DFW	6,698	74.3%	80 min	2.76%	C
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 414 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 414 held fairly steady: 85.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 78.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 77.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights85.9%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.0%
Jan–Mar 202665 flights84.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights77.8%

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

By weekday, DL 414 did best on Tuesday at 92.0% on time and worst on Monday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 414 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 45% of the 3,817 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
45%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
National Airspace System
24%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,734 of the 3,817 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,817 delay minutes reported on DL 414.

Cancellations are rare at 0.88%, 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

6.5% 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.

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.

DL 414 is not only a ATL to DFW flight. It also flew DFW to ATL (263 flights, 81.3% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 340 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.

Other routes flown as DL 414
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DFW to ATLthin sample	263	81.3%	86 min	0.38%	B+

What to do with this

Booking DL 414

For a booking, read DL 414 as 81.2% on time with 0.88% cancelled over 340 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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