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DL1075
Raleigh–Durham (RDU) to Boston (BOS) · scheduled 4:35 PM – 6:30 PM
How DL1075 performs
628 operations, June 2024 – July 2026.
DL1075 arrived on time 70.3% of the time, against 78.9% for all RDU → BOS flights, so this departure is 8.6 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 10.7 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 628 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If DL1075 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 DL1075 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight's worst arrivals run unusually far past its typical one, a bigger gap than 96% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
A typical arrival is 11 min early, but the worst tenth run 110 minutes worse than that.
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 DL1075 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1075 | 70.3% | 0.96% | -11 min | 14.5% | 628 |
| 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 DL1075 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL1075 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 DL1075 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying DL1075 came in 15 or more minutes late on 17% 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, 608 of 622 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 |
|---|---|
| DL1075 | 17% |
| 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 DL1075’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as 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?
DL1075 pushes back an average of 27.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at BOS an average of 15.5 minutes late. The 12.3 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. Its 17.9 minutes on the taxiways at RDU is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at BOS, DL1075 spends 10.9 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 2.0 minutes longer than a typical BOS arrival (9.0 min).
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 9,913 departures from RDU scheduled in the clock hour DL1075 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 DL1075’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. DL1075 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 9,913 departures from RDU are scheduled in the 4 PM–5 PM hour over the period, against 179,935 across the whole day.
DL1075 is scheduled out of RDU at 4:35 PM, in the 4 PM–5 PM bank. Departures from RDU in that hour arrive on time 70.3% of the time against 79.4% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.1 points worse 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 DL1075 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DTW→RSW Detroit to Fort Myers | January 8, 2024 – April 12, 2026 | 160 | 72.3% |
| FLL→LGA Fort Lauderdale to New York | December 20, 2025 – January 4, 2026 | 16 | — |
| MCO→SLC Orlando to Salt Lake City | November 28, 2024 | 1 | — |
| GRR→ATL Grand Rapids to Atlanta | September 10, 2023 – June 6, 2024 | 76 | — |
| ATL→GRR Atlanta to Grand Rapids | September 10, 2023 – June 6, 2024 | 65 | — |
| ATL→PIT Atlanta to Pittsburgh | March 10, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 58 | — |
| PIT→ATL Pittsburgh to Atlanta | March 10, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 58 | — |
| DTW→CLE Detroit to Cleveland | December 7–15, 2023 | 9 | — |
| ATL→JAX Atlanta to Jacksonville | November 13, 2023 – December 4, 2023 | 14 | — |
| CVG→BOS Cincinnati / Covington to Boston | October 28, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 2 | — |
| BOS→CVG Boston to Cincinnati / Covington | November 4, 2023 | 1 | — |
| DAY→ATL Dayton to Atlanta | October 29–31, 2023 | 3 | — |
| ATL→DAY Atlanta to Dayton | October 31, 2023 | 1 | — |
| GEG→MSP Spokane to Minneapolis | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 62 | — |
| MSP→GEG Minneapolis to Spokane | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 62 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL1075 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.
100 min late
against a median of 11 min early
DL1075 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 11 min early, but the worst tenth are 110 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 628 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 | 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 this flight | 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. DL1075 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 628 records of DL1075 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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