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DL1022
Raleigh–Durham (RDU) to Boston (BOS) · scheduled 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
How DL1022 performs
632 operations, June 2024 – July 2026.
DL1022 arrived on time 90.2% of the time, against 78.9% for all RDU → BOS flights, so this departure is 11.3 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 9.2 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 632 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If DL1022 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How DL1022 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the RDU → BOS route as a whole, better than 93% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
90.2% on time for this specific departure, against 78.9% for every RDU → BOS flight.
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.
Where DL1022 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1022 | 90.2% | 1.74% | -15 min | 4.5% | 632 |
| Delta Air Lines on RDU → BOS | 81.0% | 1.54% | -13 min | 9.6% | 4,491 |
| All RDU → BOS flights | 78.9% | 1.85% | -11 min | 9.8% | 9,029 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
Why DL1022 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL1022 on RDU → BOS. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL1022 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying DL1022 came in 15 or more minutes late on 9% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into RDU just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 610 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.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| DL1022 | 9% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 45 to 59 minutes. How often DL1022’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves RDU late, does that still matter by the time it reaches BOS?
DL1022 pushes back an average of 3.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at BOS an average of 5.8 minutes early. The 9.2 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 14.5 minutes on the taxiways at RDU, 2.2 minutes shorter than a typical RDU departure in the same hour.
On arrival at BOS, DL1022 spends 9.0 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 BOS 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 BOS. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 7,862 departures from RDU scheduled in the clock hour DL1022 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at BOS (440,886 flights), not just DL1022’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves RDU
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. DL1022 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 7,862 departures from RDU are scheduled in the 9 AM–10 AM hour over the period, against 179,935 across the whole day.
DL1022 is scheduled out of RDU at 9:30 AM, in the 9 AM–10 AM bank. Departures from RDU in that hour arrive on time 87.7% of the time against 79.4% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.3 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from RDU 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.
Other routes DL1022 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLC→DTW Salt Lake City to Detroit | June 6, 2026 | 1 | — |
| BOS→LGA Boston to New York | January 11, 2026 – February 8, 2026 | 5 | — |
| LAS→DTW Las Vegas to Detroit | January 5, 2026 | 1 | — |
| ATL→HDN Atlanta to Hayden | December 21, 2024 – January 4, 2026 | 32 | — |
| HDN→ATL Hayden to Atlanta | December 21, 2024 – January 4, 2026 | 32 | — |
| LAX→SFO Los Angeles to San Francisco | June 8, 2024 – July 5, 2024 | 6 | — |
| SLC→IAH Salt Lake City to Houston | July 1, 2023 – June 6, 2024 | 183 | 77.5% |
| IAH→SLC Houston to Salt Lake City | July 5, 2023 – June 6, 2024 | 150 | 84.7% |
| SEA→ATL Seattle to Atlanta | April 9, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 28 | — |
| LAX→CVG Los Angeles to Cincinnati / Covington | January 8, 2024 – March 8, 2024 | 41 | — |
| LAS→ATL Las Vegas to Atlanta | January 13, 2024 | 1 | — |
| MSP→SAT Minneapolis to San Antonio | October 28, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 5 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL1022 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
13 min late
against a median of 15 min early
Percentiles over 632 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1054 | Delta Air Lines | 93.4% | 19 min early | 748 |
| DL1022 this flight | Delta Air Lines | 90.2% | 15 min early | 632 |
| B6484 | JetBlue | 83.6% | 11 min early | 1,017 |
| DL1033 | Delta Air Lines | 74.4% | 9 min early | 618 |
| B61484 | JetBlue | 70.5% | 9 min early | 627 |
| DL1075 | Delta Air Lines | 70.3% | 11 min early | 628 |
| B62184 | JetBlue | 60.7% | 1 min late | 705 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. DL1022 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.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 632 records of DL1022 operating RDU → BOS, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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