Route reliability record
ATL→PVD
Atlanta to Providence
- Flights
- 1,162
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 903 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route 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 about an hour on average. That rests on 1,162 ATL to PVD flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Best time to fly ATL to PVD: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 85.6% of the time and Wednesday flights 87.6%, against 78.7% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,130 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.50%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Delta
78.7% on time across 1,162 flights
These figures cover 1,162 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on ATL to PVD
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 1,162 | 78.7% | 65 min | 2.50% | B |
Flight by flight
Flights on ATL to PVD
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Atlanta to Providence
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 3 of the top 4 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. ATL → PVDAtlanta to Providence | Delta Air Lines | 76.7% | 78.7% | 2.50% | 8am–11am, Wed | DL 2147 09:40 |
| 2. ATL → BOSAtlanta to Boston | Delta Air Lines | 73.0% | 74.4% | 1.82% | 5am–8am, Sat | DL 987 07:25 |
| 3. ATL → BOSAtlanta to Boston | JetBlue Airways | 66.4% | 69.2% | 4.08% | 5am–8am, Sat | B6 896 12:06 |
| 4. ATL → BOSAtlanta to Boston | Frontier Airlines | 65.4% | 67.3% | 2.87% | 5am–8am, Fri | F9 3512 05:05 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am309 flights85.6%
- 11am–2pm111 flights85.5%
- 2pm–5pm303 flights77.3%
- 5pm–8pm74 flights63.0%
- 8pm–5am365 flights75.1%
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 63.0% on time, against 85.6% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter ATL to PVD by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On ATL to PVD, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 85.6% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 63.0%, a wide gap of 22.6 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am85.6%
- 11am–2pm85.5%
- 2–5pm77.3%
- 5–8pm63.0%
- 8pm–5am75.1%
best all US flightsScale 55% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 30 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
July is the worst month at 60.4% on time, 30 points below September, the best at 90.2%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. May was the busiest month here, with 120 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.2%, a spread of 14 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 61% of the 16,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Carrier
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 61%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 9,638 of the 16,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 15,754 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.50%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
5.8% 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 903 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.1% on time across 1,162 flights, 7 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 7 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,162 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 90.2% on time and July 60.4%, a swing of 30 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,130 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
ATL to PVD questions
How often is ATL to PVD delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 21.3% of the 1,162 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is ATL to PVD compared with the rest of the country?
78.7% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of about a point in its favour. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on ATL to PVD?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 85.6% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 63.0%, 23 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are July delays on ATL to PVD?
July is the weakest month at 60.4% on time, compared with 90.2% in September. Across the year that is 30 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- PVD to ATL — the return legseparate record
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- ATL to LGA, a related route72.3%
- DCA to PVD, a related route72.5%
- ATL to MCO, a related route70.3%
- Delta Air Lines on-time record78.7%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. ATL to PVD and PVD to ATL are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.