Delta Air Lines in November 2023

91.3%arrived on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In November 2023, Delta Air Lines (DL) reported 80,353 scheduled domestic flights. 91.3% arrived on time, 0.0% were cancelled and 0.1% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 86.2% on time and 0.1% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 5.1 points above the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 58%, late-arriving aircraft 24% and national aviation system 16%.

On time 91.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 8.6%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Delta Air Lines in November 2023.

November 2023 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	DL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Nov 2023
Arrived on time	91.3%	—	79.9%	86.2%
Departed on time	91.2%	—	80.6%	86.0%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	1.7%	0.1%
Average arrival delay	-6.5 min	—	3.9 min	-1.3 min
Scheduled flights a day	2,678	—	2,846	18,793
Scheduled flights	80,353	—	1,038,644	563,777

142 airports and 893 routes had DL flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ATL Atlanta	17,821	92.9%	-5.7 min	0.0%
MSP Minneapolis	5,384	91.4%	-10.3 min	0.0%
DTW Detroit	4,898	89.1%	-7.3 min	0.0%
SLC Salt Lake City	4,242	91.2%	-7.0 min	0.0%
LAX Los Angeles	2,997	90.0%	-7.9 min	0.0%
SEA Seattle	2,619	85.8%	-2.1 min	0.0%
JFK New York	2,476	88.4%	-6.4 min	0.0%
LGA New York	2,203	88.9%	-8.4 min	0.0%
BOS Boston	2,115	87.0%	-4.2 min	0.0%
MCO Orlando	1,739	90.1%	-5.7 min	0.0%
LAS Las Vegas	1,309	90.5%	-7.8 min	0.1%
SFO San Francisco	1,065	92.2%	-10.2 min	0.1%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	989	92.1%	-4.4 min	0.1%
TPA Tampa	979	92.2%	-6.7 min	0.0%
DEN Denver	972	90.7%	-6.4 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of DL flights that arrived on time, by scheduled departure hour (local time at each origin), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	58.4%	42.5%	241,603
Late-arriving aircraft	23.5%	37.3%	97,235
National Aviation System	16.2%	16.2%	66,794
Extreme weather	1.8%	3.7%	7,255
Security	0.1%	0.3%	546

413,433 delay minutes on 6,937 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

What share of Delta Air Lines flights were on time in November 2023?

91.3% of 80,353 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 86.2% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the carrier did not report that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for November 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Delta Air Lines · methodology · corrections.