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Carrier month · May 2024
Delta Air Lines in May 2024
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 May 2024, Delta Air Lines (DL) reported 88,381 scheduled domestic flights. 78.3% arrived on time, 0.2% were cancelled and 0.3% diverted.
All reporting carriers together recorded 72.3% on time and 1.4% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 6.0 points above the combined figure.
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 39%, late-arriving aircraft 35% and national aviation system 22%.
- On time 78.3%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.2%
- Cancelled 0.2%
- Diverted 0.3%
May 2024 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers
| Measure | May 2024 | Year earlier | DL, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All carriers, May 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arrived on time | 78.3% | — | 79.9% | 72.3% |
| Departed on time | 79.7% | — | 80.6% | 73.4% |
| Cancelled | 0.2% | — | 1.7% | 1.4% |
| Average arrival delay | 8.4 min | — | 3.9 min | 14.0 min |
| Scheduled flights a day | 2,946 | — | 2,846 | 20,325 |
| Scheduled flights | 88,381 | — | 1,038,644 | 609,743 |
142 airports and 884 routes had DL flights that month.
Busiest airports that month
| Airport | Departures | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL Atlanta | 20,022 | 73.6% | 12.3 min | 0.3% |
| MSP Minneapolis | 6,003 | 79.7% | 5.6 min | 0.0% |
| DTW Detroit | 5,344 | 76.5% | 8.9 min | 0.0% |
| SLC Salt Lake City | 4,602 | 82.2% | 2.6 min | 0.0% |
| LAX Los Angeles | 3,158 | 76.2% | 10.6 min | 0.1% |
| SEA Seattle | 2,858 | 82.9% | 1.1 min | 0.0% |
| JFK New York | 2,679 | 74.8% | 8.0 min | 0.1% |
| LGA New York | 2,315 | 75.9% | 9.9 min | 0.1% |
| BOS Boston | 2,250 | 77.7% | 7.8 min | 0.1% |
| MCO Orlando | 1,865 | 73.0% | 14.6 min | 0.0% |
| LAS Las Vegas | 1,406 | 83.1% | 2.1 min | 0.1% |
| SFO San Francisco | 1,164 | 78.3% | 4.0 min | 0.0% |
| TPA Tampa | 1,141 | 77.1% | 15.5 min | 0.2% |
| DEN Denver | 1,104 | 81.3% | 4.1 min | 0.0% |
| ORD Chicago | 1,059 | 70.4% | 26.4 min | 0.2% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
What share of Delta Air Lines flights were on time in May 2024?
78.3% of 88,381 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 72.3% that month.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
May 2023 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 May 2024; 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.