DL404

DL404 arrived on time 91.9% of the time, against 76.4% for all ATL → LGA flights, so this departure is 15.5 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 12.6 points better.

DL404’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 6:30 AM earlier on, and around 6:00 AM more recently — a 30-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 625 operations, January 2024 – July 2026 · If DL404 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far ahead of the ATL → LGA route as a whole, better than 98% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.

91.9% on time for this specific departure, against 76.4% for every ATL → LGA flight.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 2024 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL404 on ATL → LGA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering January 2024 – July 2026

DL404 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 6.8 hours on the ground at ATL, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

The aircraft flying DL404 came in 15 or more minutes late on 19% 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, 569 of 609 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 January 2024 – July 2026

DL404 pushes back an average of 1.6 minutes late and reaches the gate at LGA an average of 7.4 minutes early. The 9.0 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 15.3 minutes on the taxiways at ATL is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at LGA, DL404 spends 8.3 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 LGA spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

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 LGA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 19,612 departures from ATL scheduled in the clock hour DL404 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at LGA (456,481 flights), not just DL404’s own. More on taxi time.

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

DL404 is scheduled out of ATL at 6:30 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from ATL in that hour arrive on time 89.4% of the time against 78.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.7 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 · January 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 2024 – 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 DL404 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering January 2024 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. DL404 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.

• DL460 ATL→LGA Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 1:30 PM, on time 79.0%
• DL524 ATL→LGA Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 2:30 PM, on time 74.1%
• F93288 ATL→LGA Frontier Airlines on the same route, departs 9:00 PM, on time 58.6%
• DL468 ATL→LGA Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 7:30 PM, on time 71.3%