DL1014

DL1014 arrived on time 64.3% of the time, against 80.9% for all LGA → DTW flights, so this departure is 16.6 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 16.9 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 644 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If DL1014 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far behind the carrier's own average on this route, worse than 96% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

64.3% on time for this specific departure, against 81.2% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL1014 on LGA → DTW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, DL1014 pushed back an average of 88 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 0 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into LGA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 607 of 621 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026

DL1014 pushes back an average of 33.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at DTW an average of 23.0 minutes late. The 10.5 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 27.2 minutes on the taxiways at LGA, 5.3 minutes longer than a typical LGA departure in the same hour.

On arrival at DTW, DL1014 spends 10.1 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at DTW spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached DTW. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 16,537 departures from LGA scheduled in the clock hour DL1014 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DTW (388,616 flights), not just DL1014’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026

DL1014 is scheduled out of LGA at 9:00 PM, in the 9 PM–10 PM bank. Departures from LGA in that hour arrive on time 72.6% of the time against 78.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.7 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from LGA to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL1014 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. DL1014 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.

• YX4598 LGA→DTW Republic Airways on the same route, departs 8:29 PM, on time 70.5%
• DL999 LGA→DTW Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 4:59 PM, on time 70.8%
• DL1078 LGA→DTW Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 9:30 AM, on time 88.3%
• DL2411 LGA→MSY Delta Air Lines flight out of LGA, LGA to MSY, departs 7:25 AM, on time 87.5%