DL1078

DL1078 arrived on time 88.3% of the time, against 80.9% for all LGA → DTW flights, so this departure is 7.4 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 7.1 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 782 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If DL1078 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

DL1078 has cancelled 1.28% of its scheduled departures (10 of 782), against 3.07% for all LGA → DTW flights — this specific departure cancels 1.8 percentage points less often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about DL1078 specifically, not about the route it flies.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL1078 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

The aircraft flying DL1078 came in 15 or more minutes late on 13% 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 LGA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 588 of 772 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

DL1078 pushes back an average of 4.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at DTW an average of 5.4 minutes early. The 9.5 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. Its 25.2 minutes on the taxiways at LGA is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at DTW, DL1078 spends 7.8 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 1.5 minutes shorter than a typical DTW arrival (9.3 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 DTW. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 31,853 departures from LGA scheduled in the clock hour DL1078 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 DL1078’s own. More on taxi time.

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

DL1078 is scheduled out of LGA at 9:30 AM, in the 9 AM–10 AM bank. Departures from LGA in that hour arrive on time 85.1% of the time against 78.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 6.9 points better 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 DL1078 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. DL1078 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.

• DL1122 LGA→DTW Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 12:55 PM, on time 80.5%
• DL1231 LGA→DTW Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 6:00 AM, on time 94.0%
• DL999 LGA→DTW Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 4:59 PM, on time 70.8%
• YX4598 LGA→DTW Republic Airways on the same route, departs 8:29 PM, on time 70.5%
• DL2411 LGA→MSY Delta Air Lines flight out of LGA, LGA to MSY, departs 7:25 AM, on time 87.5%