Flight Reliability
DL 1019 · Delta Air Lines
Boston → Detroit (BOS–DTW)
92
Nerd Approved
WanderNerd Reliability Score
- 95%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 10 min early
- Average arrival delay
- 2.7%
- Cancelled
- 16 min early
- Median arrival delay
Based on 365 historical flights. Data through May 2026.
What the data says
Tuesday comes out ahead.
A small edge: 98% on time on Tuesdays against 92% on Thursdays.
Well ahead of the BOS–DTW route.
DL 1019 arrived on time 95% of the time, versus 78% across the BOS–DTW route.
Better than the Delta Air Lines network average.
DL 1019 arrived on time 95% of the time, versus 81% across the Delta Air Lines network.
Ticking up lately.
DL 1019 arrived on time 96% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 90% in the three months before that.
The breakdown
- Mon94%(49 flights)
- Tue98%(50 flights)
- Wed92%(52 flights)
- Thu92%(52 flights)
- Fri94%(50 flights)
- Sat96%(51 flights)
- Sun98%(51 flights)
100%
May
Jun 100% → May 100% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 100% | 28 |
| July 2025 | 97% | 31 |
| August 2025 | 97% | 31 |
| September 2025 | 100% | 30 |
| October 2025 | 97% | 30 |
| November 2025 | 93% | 30 |
| December 2025 | 90% | 30 |
| January 2026 | 83% | 29 |
| February 2026 | 96% | 25 |
| March 2026 | 97% | 31 |
| April 2026 | 90% | 29 |
| May 2026 | 100% | 31 |
- Departures on time
- 95%
- Diverted
- 0%
- Flights flown
- 355
- Months covered
- 12
Same route, other flights
Keep nerding
Based on 365 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.