LIT to ATL flight delays
Little Rock, AR (LIT) Atlanta, GA (ATL) · 453 miles
195 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
92.75%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.51%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
118 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
9 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
The shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 118 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.
Flights from Little Rock to Atlanta are among the most dependable in the record. A route this punctual is usually a short hop between airports with slots to spare.
This route does better than its own airport. Departures from LIT overall run 16.5 points less punctual than this particular one — so whatever congestion LIT has, this route is largely escaping it.
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.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, Delta Air Lines arrived on time most often on LIT to ATL.
Every airline on LIT to ATL
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 | 195 | 92.75% | 0.51% | 118 min | A |
The return leg
ATL to LIT Atlanta back to Little Rock 90.26% on time ACommon questions
Are flights from Little Rock to Atlanta usually delayed?
92.75% of flights on the LIT to ATL route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 1 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Little Rock to Atlanta?
Only Delta Air Lines appears in the published record on this route, with 195 flights and 92.75% arriving on time.
How often are LIT to ATL flights cancelled?
0.51% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 5 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When LIT to ATL flights are late, how late are they?
About 118 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 LIT to ATL during March 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 →