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Carrier month · June 2024

Delta Air Lines in June 2024

79.7%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 June 2024, Delta Air Lines (DL) reported 89,065 scheduled domestic flights. 79.7% arrived on time, 0.2% were cancelled and 0.3% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 73.9% on time and 1.3% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 5.8 points above the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 45%, late-arriving aircraft 30% and national aviation system 21%.

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Delta Air Lines in June 2024.

June 2024 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

MeasureJun 2024Year earlierDL, 12 months to Jul 2026All carriers, Jun 2024
Arrived on time79.7%—79.9%73.9%
Departed on time79.3%—80.6%73.7%
Cancelled0.2%—1.7%1.3%
Average arrival delay6.3 min—3.9 min11.8 min
Scheduled flights a day2,969—2,84620,371
Scheduled flights89,065—1,038,644611,132

145 airports and 918 routes had DL flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

AirportDeparturesOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ATL Atlanta20,07281.3%3.9 min0.1%
MSP Minneapolis6,55669.8%12.3 min0.1%
DTW Detroit5,26476.1%9.6 min0.2%
SLC Salt Lake City4,71279.5%7.0 min0.0%
LAX Los Angeles3,17174.3%10.5 min0.1%
SEA Seattle2,82881.3%3.1 min0.0%
JFK New York2,58773.9%10.9 min0.5%
BOS Boston2,23775.6%9.0 min0.4%
LGA New York2,17575.4%9.3 min1.1%
MCO Orlando1,80175.6%16.4 min0.4%
LAS Las Vegas1,37680.2%6.2 min0.1%
SFO San Francisco1,16275.9%9.5 min0.1%
DEN Denver1,11078.9%7.2 min0.1%
TPA Tampa1,07378.6%7.5 min0.0%
ORD Chicago1,04972.9%15.2 min0.7%

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), June 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesAll carriers, Jun 2024Minutes
Air carrier44.5%34.4%554,930
Late-arriving aircraft29.7%41.5%370,575
National Aviation System21.3%17.8%264,932
Extreme weather4.5%6.0%55,710
Security0.0%0.2%570
1,246,717 delay minutes on 17,582 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

What share of Delta Air Lines flights were on time in June 2024?

79.7% of 89,065 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 73.9% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

June 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 June 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.