Best airline from St. Louis to Atlanta

Most punctual on this route

A
Delta Air Lines

89.39% on time across 2,371 flights · 1.98% cancelled

That is 8.7 points clear of Southwest Airlines, the next best on this route at 80.7%.

Every airline on STL to ATL, ranked

# Airline Flights On time Cancelled Grade
1 Delta Air Lines 2,371 89.39% 1.98% A
2 Southwest Airlines 1,130 80.7% 1.15% C
3 Frontier Airlines 204 62.81% 1.96% F

Why this is worth checking per route

An airline's overall punctuality is an average across everywhere it flies, and averages hide the thing you are booking. A carrier can be middling nationally and the best option on this particular pair of airports — because of which slots it holds, what time of day it schedules, and which aircraft feeds the flight.

On STL to ATL the spread between best and worst is 26.6 points. Both carriers fly the same corridor, into the same weather and the same air traffic control — so a gap that size is a fact about the airlines, not the route.

Punctuality is one dimension of a good airline and not the one most people would name first. It is, though, the only one measured the same way for everybody and published by someone with no stake in the answer. Full STL to ATL record → · Best time of year to fly it →