Flight number record

DL 760

Delta Air Lines · Boston to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: BOS → DFW
Departs: 07:05
Flights: 349
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 760, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 760 lands a B, about a point 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 349 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

On time

78.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 338 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.29%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 349 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 760 flies

DL 760 flies BOS to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:05, used on 91 of 349 flights, with 07:15 (65 flights) and 07:55 (63 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:0591 flights26.1%
Departs 07:1565 flights18.6%
Departs 07:5563 flights18.1%

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 07:05 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 760 runs 11 points worse at 78.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 760 next to BOS to DFW

Every carrier on BOS to DFW combined arrived on time 76.1% of the time across 3,740 flights, so DL 760 is 3 points ahead of it. Delta flew 861 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

DL 760 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 760thin sample	349	78.7%	67 min	2.29%	B
All Delta Air Lines on BOS–DFW	861	70.0%	79 min	2.21%	C
All carriers on BOS–DFW	3,740	76.1%	84 min	3.16%	B−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 760 quarter by quarter

DL 760 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 83.1% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 73.0%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 87 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 202591 flights83.1%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights73.0%
Jan–Mar 202681 flights77.3%
Apr–Jun 202687 flights81.2%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 760 did best on Friday at 87.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 73.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 760 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 4,829 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
55%
National Airspace System
33%
Late-arriving aircraft
9%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, 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 2,677 of the 4,829 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,829 delay minutes reported on DL 760.

Cancellations sit at 2.29% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.86%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.7% 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 1,562 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 DFW to BOS (138), but none flew often enough under DL 760 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BOS to DFW only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 349 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 760

For a booking, read DL 760 as 78.7% on time with 2.29% cancelled over 349 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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