ATL to MTJ flight delays
Atlanta, GA (ATL) Montrose/Delta, CO (MTJ) · 1,352 miles
100 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · the publishing regulator
75%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
4%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
47 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
13 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 4% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
The two directions do not behave alike. MTJ to ATL arrives on time 6 points more often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
Only Delta Air Lines flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.
Flights from Atlanta to Montrose/Delta run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, Delta Air Lines arrived on time most often on ATL to MTJ. Flights ran closest to schedule in December and worst in February.
Every airline on ATL to MTJ
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 100 | 75% | 4% | 47 min | D |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
MTJ to ATL Montrose/Delta back to Atlanta 81.05% on time DOther routes from Atlanta
Common questions
Are flights from Atlanta to Montrose/Delta usually delayed?
75% of flights on the ATL to MTJ route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is about the same as the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Atlanta to Montrose/Delta?
Only Delta Air Lines appears in the published record on this route, with 100 flights and 75% arriving on time.
How often are ATL to MTJ flights cancelled?
4% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 40 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When ATL to MTJ flights are late, how late are they?
About 47 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on ATL to MTJ during January 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →