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Atlanta (ATL) departure delays

26,961 departures · 139 routes · February 2025 – July 2026

79.5%

Left on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

1.38%

Cancelled

Share of departures

68 min

When late, late by

Average delayed departure

#30

Rank

Among graded US airports

What the record says about ATL

ATL runs about as well as the average airport here.

The airlines flying from here are not equally affected. Virgin Atlantic left on time 21.2 points more often than Frontier Airlines from the same airport — which is the clearest evidence available that a delayed departure is not purely the airport's fault.

With 40 routes in the record, ATL is a hub, and hubs carry a particular risk: a delay early in the day propagates through every aircraft that was due to fly on afterwards. Morning departures from a hub are reliably better than evening ones.

Which airlines run best out of ATL

Airline Departures On time
Virgin Atlantic 1,010 84.2%
Delta Air Lines 20,812 83%
PSA Airlines 282 79.8%
Republic Airways 269 79.2%
SkyWest Airlines 490 77.2%
United Airlines 690 75.8%
British Airways 539 74.3%
JetBlue Airways 282 72.7%
American Airlines 616 72.2%
Southwest Airlines 1,309 68.1%
Frontier Airlines 2,035 63%

Routes out of ATL

ATL → LHR London 1,019 flights · 78.62% on time C ATL → MCO Orlando 666 flights · 73.28% on time C ATL → LGA New York 665 flights · 72.16% on time D ATL → ORD Chicago 584 flights · 68.44% on time D ATL → DCA Washington 562 flights · 72.18% on time D ATL → PHL Philadelphia 544 flights · 77.67% on time C ATL → DFW Dallas/Fort Worth 541 flights · 67.51% on time F ATL → FLL Fort Lauderdale 540 flights · 78.53% on time C ATL → TPA Tampa 533 flights · 79.55% on time B ATL → DEN Denver 515 flights · 77.41% on time C ATL → EWR Newark 507 flights · 73.73% on time D ATL → MIA Miami 490 flights · 77.07% on time C ATL → BWI Baltimore 480 flights · 73.89% on time C ATL → BOS Boston 467 flights · 78.35% on time C ATL → MAN Manchester 447 flights · 88.18% on time A ATL → LAX Los Angeles 433 flights · 78.74% on time C ATL → IAH Houston 396 flights · 71.65% on time D ATL → RDU Raleigh/Durham 392 flights · 82.26% on time B ATL → BNA Nashville 390 flights · 83.8% on time A ATL → LAS Las Vegas 389 flights · 73.32% on time C ATL → IAD Washington 381 flights · 77.39% on time C ATL → AUS Austin 378 flights · 74.93% on time C ATL → DTW Detroit 377 flights · 79.41% on time B ATL → CLT Charlotte 373 flights · 82.56% on time B ATL → JAX Jacksonville 368 flights · 79.17% on time C ATL → JFK New York 342 flights · 76.85% on time C ATL → SEA Seattle 324 flights · 76.71% on time C ATL → CLE Cleveland 323 flights · 81.9% on time B ATL → MEM Memphis 318 flights · 80.51% on time B ATL → STL St. Louis 318 flights · 81.9% on time B ATL → MDW Chicago 308 flights · 70% on time D ATL → PBI West Palm Beach/Palm Beach 306 flights · 85% on time B ATL → BHM Birmingham 305 flights · 85.28% on time B ATL → SFO San Francisco 304 flights · 55.96% on time F ATL → MSY New Orleans 303 flights · 82.94% on time B ATL → MSP Minneapolis 288 flights · 79.65% on time B ATL → PHX Phoenix 286 flights · 73.78% on time C ATL → MCI Kansas City 283 flights · 85.36% on time A ATL → CHS Charleston 282 flights · 86.33% on time A ATL → SAV Savannah 278 flights · 85.51% on time A