DL1408

DL1408 arrived on time 82.4% of the time, against 79.6% for all ATL → SAT flights, so this departure is 2.8 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 2.1 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 985 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If DL1408 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL1408 on ATL → SAT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

The aircraft flying DL1408 came in 15 or more minutes late on 10% 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 ATL just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 910 of 972 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 July 2023 – July 2026

DL1408 pushes back an average of 7.6 minutes late and reaches the gate at SAT an average of 3.4 minutes late. The 4.2 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 ATL, 1.4 minutes shorter than a typical ATL departure in the same hour.

On arrival at SAT, DL1408 spends 6.4 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 1.7 minutes longer than a typical SAT arrival (4.8 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 SAT. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 68,577 departures from ATL scheduled in the clock hour DL1408 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at SAT (127,244 flights), not just DL1408’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

DL1408 is scheduled out of ATL at 11:40 AM, in the 11 AM–12 PM bank. Departures from ATL in that hour arrive on time 84.0% of the time against 78.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.2 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from ATL 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.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL1408 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. DL1408 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.

• DL1676 ATL→SAT Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 8:10 AM, on time 89.1%
• DL1465 ATL→SAT Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 3:40 PM, on time 76.7%
• DL2893 ATL→SAT Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 8:05 PM, on time 74.6%
• DL1066 SAT→ATL Return trip, SAT to ATL, departs 7:00 AM, on time 91.5%