Flight number record
DL 414
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- ATL → DFW
- Departs
- 11:28
- Flights
- 340
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 340 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 414's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 42 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 336 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.88%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 340 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 414 flies
DL 414 flies ATL to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:28, used on 78 of 340 flights, with 11:00 (52 flights) and 11:36 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 11:2878 flights22.9%
- Departs 11:0052 flights15.3%
- Departs 11:3634 flights10.0%
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 11:28 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 414 runs 3 points better at 81.5%. 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 414 next to ATL to DFW
Every carrier on ATL to DFW combined arrived on time 73.9% of the time across 6,672 flights, so DL 414 is 8 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,784 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 414thin sample | 340 | 81.5% | 65 min | 0.88% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–DFW | 2,784 | 76.0% | 60 min | 2.55% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–DFW | 6,672 | 73.9% | 82 min | 2.50% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 414 quarter by quarter
DL 414 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 77.8%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 68 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.0%
- Jan–Mar 202665 flights84.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights77.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.9%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 414 did best on Tuesday at 89.8% on time and worst on Monday at 69.4%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 414 runs when it is late
The 62 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early62 flights18.5%
- Within 15 min212 flights63.1%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights5.1%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 336 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 61 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 414
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 5 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across December, March, October, July and November, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 5 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 October 2025 | 3 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 July 2026 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 November 2025 | 2 hours 27 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 414 runs late
Carrier accounts for 51% of the 4,012 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Carrier
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,044 of the 4,012 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,012 delay minutes reported on DL 414.
Cancellations are rare at 0.88%, below the national 1.89% 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
7.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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.
DL 414 is not only a ATL to DFW flight. It also flew DFW to ATL (263 flights, 78.6% 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFW to ATLthin sample | 263 | 78.6% | 85 min | 0.38% | B+ |
What to do with this
Booking DL 414
For a booking, read DL 414 as 81.5% on time with 0.88% cancelled over 340 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- ATL to DFW, every carrier and departure
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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.