Flight number record
DL 796
Delta Air Lines · Phoenix to Atlanta
- Route
- PHX → ATL
- Departs
- 13:55
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 796, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 796 lands a B+, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
78.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights
Avg delay
92 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 796 flies
DL 796 flies PHX to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:55, used on 60 of 361 flights, with 12:51 (57 flights) next.
- Departs 13:5560 flights16.6%
- Departs 12:5157 flights15.8%
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 13:55 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 796 runs level with that at 78.5%. 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 796 next to PHX to ATL
Every carrier on PHX to ATL combined arrived on time 80.7% of the time across 3,696 flights, so DL 796 is 2 points behind it. Delta flew 2,283 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 796thin sample | 361 | 78.5% | 92 min | 0.55% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on PHX–ATL | 2,283 | 85.4% | 102 min | 1.01% | A |
| All carriers on PHX–ATL | 3,696 | 80.7% | 78 min | 0.87% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 796 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 796 held fairly steady: 79.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 78.8% in Jan–Mar 2026, 80.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 72.6% in Jul–Sep 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights79.1%
- Jan–Mar 202688 flights78.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights80.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights72.6%
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 796 did best on Wednesday at 88.5% on time and worst on Monday at 69.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 796 runs when it is late
DL 796 often beats the schedule: 107 of 358 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 77 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early107 flights29.9%
- Within 15 min174 flights48.6%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late26 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights4.2%
- 2+ hours late14 flights3.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 358 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 83 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 796
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 February 2026, 17 hours 24 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 February 2026 | 17 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 6 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 September 2025 | 5 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 December 2025 | 5 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 November 2025 | 5 hours 8 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 796 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 7,091 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,091 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 53 to one. The split is drawn from 7,091 delay minutes reported on DL 796.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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
8.1% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 1,587 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.
DL 796 is not only a PHX to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to PHX (339 flights, 79.6% 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. 361 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL to PHXthin sample | 339 | 79.6% | 70 min | 0.88% | B+ |
What to do with this
Booking DL 796
For a booking, read DL 796 as 78.5% on time with 0.55% cancelled over 361 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.