Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL1530
Raleigh–Durham (RDU) to Atlanta (ATL) · scheduled 7:40 AM – 9:20 AM
How DL1530 performs
621 operations, June 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on RDU → ATL, DL1530 averaged about 5 operations a week (621 in 816 days, cancelled ones included).
DL1530 arrived on time 88.5% of the time, against 84.9% for all RDU → ATL flights, so this departure is 3.6 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 1.7 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 621 operations, June 2024 – August 2026 · If DL1530 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1530 | 88.5% | 0.81% | -11 min | 3.4% | 621 |
| Delta Air Lines on RDU → ATL | 86.8% | 0.92% | -10 min | 4.7% | 11,414 |
| All RDU → ATL flights | 84.9% | 1.13% | -9 min | 5.5% | 14,786 |
DL1530 cancelled 5 of 621 operations (0.81%), close to the 1.13% for RDU → ATL.
3.4% of DL1530’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 5.5% across RDU → ATL, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
Why DL1530 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL1530 on RDU → ATL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL1530 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
DL1530 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 9.5 hours on the ground at RDU, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
The aircraft flying DL1530 came in 15 or more minutes late on 20% 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.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into RDU: 546 of 616 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| DL1530 | 20% |
| Network, same turn | 29% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less here than on a same-day turn.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often DL1530’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.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves RDU late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ATL?
DL1530 pushes back an average of 5.6 minutes late and reaches the gate at ATL an average of 2.6 minutes early. The 8.1 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so on average a late pushback on this flight is made up before the gate. It spends 17.0 minutes on the taxiways at RDU, 1.3 minutes shorter than a typical RDU departure in the same hour.
On arrival at ATL, DL1530 spends 9.8 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 about what any arrival at ATL spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 17,071 RDU departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 1,039,387 arrivals at ATL. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves RDU
DL1530 has one departure time, 7:40 AM, so this is what that hour at RDU is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 17,071 departures from RDU are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 184,584 across the whole day.
DL1530 is scheduled out of RDU at 7:40 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from RDU in that hour arrive on time 87.1% of the time against 79.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.7 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from RDU, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL1530 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. DL1530 also served these 8 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCO→MSP Orlando to Minneapolis | October 6, 2025 – December 19, 2025 | 63 | — |
| ATL→SGF Atlanta to Springfield | June 8, 2025 – October 5, 2025 | 95 | 60.6% |
| SGF→ATL Springfield to Atlanta | June 8, 2025 – October 5, 2025 | 95 | 70.2% |
| ATL→RDU Atlanta to Raleigh–Durham | September 9, 2024 – October 6, 2024 | 28 | — |
| SEA→LAX Seattle to Los Angeles | July 1, 2023 – June 6, 2024 | 252 | 92.9% |
| PHL→MSP Philadelphia to Minneapolis | April 9, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 28 | — |
| MSP→MIA Minneapolis to Miami | January 13, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 36 | — |
| MIA→MSP Miami to Minneapolis | January 18, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 32 | — |
The figures above describe only RDU → ATL, the route DL1530 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
18 min late
against a median of 11 min early
Percentiles over 621 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2634 | Delta Air Lines | 92.0% | 10 min early | 627 |
| DL2633 | Delta Air Lines | 91.4% | 12 min early | 851 |
| DL1530 this flight | Delta Air Lines | 88.5% | 11 min early | 621 |
| DL2026 | Delta Air Lines | 86.4% | 7 min early | 678 |
| DL2052 | Delta Air Lines | 83.4% | 7 min early | 619 |
| DL2600 | Delta Air Lines | 76.9% | 7 min early | 630 |
Among all 6 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, DL1530 has the 3rd highest on-time rate, 3.5 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 621 records of DL1530 operating RDU → 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 reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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