Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL1109
Albuquerque (ABQ) to Atlanta (ATL) · scheduled 4:37 PM – 9:50 PM
How DL1109 performs
826 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
DL1109 arrived on time 84.3% of the time, against 89.5% for all ABQ → ATL flights, so this departure is 5.2 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 5.2 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 826 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If DL1109 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL1109 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1109 | 84.3% | 1.09% | -11 min | 4.2% | 826 |
| Delta Air Lines on ABQ → ATL | 89.5% | 1.05% | -12 min | 3.1% | 3,044 |
| All ABQ → ATL flights | 89.5% | 1.05% | -12 min | 3.1% | 3,044 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why DL1109 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL1109 on ABQ → ATL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL1109 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, DL1109 pushed back an average of 64 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 ABQ just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 813 of 817 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| DL1109 | 15% | 82% | 7% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 68% | 9% |
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 60 to 89 minutes. How often DL1109’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often DL1109 left 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s.
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 July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves ABQ late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ATL?
DL1109 pushes back an average of 11.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at ATL an average of 2.1 minutes late. The 9.8 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 14.4 minutes on the taxiways at ABQ is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at ATL, DL1109 spends 11.7 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 2.2 minutes longer than a typical ATL arrival (9.6 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 ATL. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 4,443 departures from ABQ scheduled in the clock hour DL1109 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at ATL (1,012,161 flights), not just DL1109’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves ABQ
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. DL1109 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 4,443 departures from ABQ are scheduled in the 4 PM–5 PM hour over the period, against 76,013 across the whole day.
DL1109 is scheduled out of ABQ at 4:37 PM, in the 4 PM–5 PM bank. Departures from ABQ in that hour arrive on time 71.9% of the time against 83.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 11.3 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from ABQ 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 · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL1109 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATL→ABQ Atlanta to Albuquerque | July 1, 2023 – July 31, 2026 | 819 | 85.3% |
| ATL→LAX Atlanta to Los Angeles | February 12, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 24 | — |
| SEA→BNA Seattle to Nashville | January 5, 2026 | 1 | — |
| ATL→OMA Atlanta to Omaha | January 16, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 17 | — |
| SLC→PIT Salt Lake City to Pittsburgh | November 5, 2023 | 1 | — |
| ONT→SEA Ontario to Seattle | November 1, 2023 | 1 | — |
| SEA→ONT Seattle to Ontario | November 1, 2023 | 1 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL1109 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.
30 min late
against a median of 11 min early
Percentiles over 826 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1688 | Delta Air Lines | 93.2% | 13 min early | 1,127 |
| DL1004 | Delta Air Lines | 88.1% | 12 min early | 711 |
| DL1109 this flight | Delta Air Lines | 84.3% | 11 min early | 826 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. DL1109 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 826 records of DL1109 operating ABQ → ATL, 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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