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DL1736
Atlanta (ATL) to Fort Myers (RSW) · scheduled 7:59 PM – 9:12 PM
How DL1736 performs
620 operations, November 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on ATL → RSW, DL1736 averaged about one operation a day or more (620 in 659 days, cancelled ones included).
DL1736 arrived on time 69.7% of the time, against 77.7% for all ATL → RSW flights, so this departure is 8.0 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 8.4 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 620 operations, November 2024 – August 2026 · If DL1736 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL1736 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1736 | 69.7% | 0.97% | -1 min | 11.4% | 620 |
| Delta Air Lines on ATL → RSW | 78.1% | 1.40% | -4 min | 6.8% | 8,626 |
| All ATL → RSW flights | 77.7% | 1.42% | -4 min | 7.0% | 9,730 |
DL1736 cancelled 6 of 620 operations (0.97%), close to the 1.42% for ATL → RSW.
11.4% of DL1736’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 7.0% across ATL → RSW, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2024 – August 2026
Why DL1736 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
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL1736 on ATL → RSW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2024 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL1736 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying DL1736 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 ATL: 547 of 614 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 |
|---|---|
| DL1736 | 20% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
83 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often DL1736’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher 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 November 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves ATL late, does that still matter by the time it reaches RSW?
DL1736 pushes back an average of 19.0 minutes late and reaches the gate at RSW an average of 15.3 minutes late. The 3.7 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. Its 16.7 minutes on the taxiways at ATL is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at RSW, DL1736 spends 4.6 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 1.0 minutes shorter than a typical RSW arrival (5.6 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 66,898 ATL departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 109,377 arrivals at RSW. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves ATL
DL1736 has one departure time, 7:59 PM, so this is what that hour at ATL is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 66,898 departures from ATL are scheduled in the 7 PM–8 PM hour over the period, against 1,039,468 across the whole day.
DL1736 is scheduled out of ATL at 7:59 PM, in the 7 PM–8 PM bank. Departures from ATL in that hour arrive on time 70.1% of the time against 78.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.5 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from ATL, 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 · November 2024 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL1736 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. DL1736 also served these 16 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABQ→ATL Albuquerque to Atlanta | October 4–15, 2024 | 9 | — |
| ATL→GSP Atlanta to Greenville/Greer/Spartanburg | July 8, 2024 – September 8, 2024 | 63 | — |
| MSP→DEN Minneapolis to Denver | June 7, 2024 – July 7, 2024 | 31 | — |
| ATL→FLL Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| FLL→ATL Fort Lauderdale to Atlanta | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| DEN→MSP Denver to Minneapolis | March 10, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 58 | — |
| ATL→MDW Atlanta to Chicago | January 13, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 12 | — |
| MDW→ATL Chicago to Atlanta | January 13, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 12 | — |
| ATL→JAN Atlanta to Jackson | January 15–31, 2024 | 15 | — |
| JAN→ATL Jackson to Atlanta | January 15–31, 2024 | 15 | — |
| DTW→IAH Detroit to Houston | December 16, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 23 | — |
| EWR→MSP Newark to Minneapolis | December 7–15, 2023 | 8 | — |
| MSP→EWR Minneapolis to Newark | December 7–15, 2023 | 8 | — |
| CVG→BOS Cincinnati / Covington to Boston | September 5, 2023 – November 22, 2023 | 37 | — |
| BOS→CVG Boston to Cincinnati / Covington | September 5, 2023 – November 18, 2023 | 52 | — |
| SEA→LAX Seattle to Los Angeles | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 66 | — |
The figures above describe only ATL → RSW, the route DL1736 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
68 min late
against a median of 1 min early
DL1736 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 1 min early, but the worst tenth are 69 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 620 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1089 | Delta Air Lines | 88.0% | 8 min early | 1,151 |
| DL1153 | Delta Air Lines | 82.7% | 4 min early | 1,115 |
| DL1196 | Delta Air Lines | 82.2% | 7 min early | 1,154 |
| DL1110 | Delta Air Lines | 78.4% | 4 min early | 958 |
| DL1124 | Delta Air Lines | 73.3% | 3 min early | 1,082 |
| DL1217 | Delta Air Lines | 72.8% | 2 min early | 851 |
| DL1083 | Delta Air Lines | 72.0% | 2 min early | 689 |
| DL1736 this flight | Delta Air Lines | 69.7% | 1 min early | 620 |
Among all 8 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, DL1736 has the lowest on-time rate, 18.3 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 620 records of DL1736 operating ATL → RSW, 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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