DAL978 is operated by DELTA AIR LINES INC between Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (KDTW) and Buffalo Niagara International Airport (KBUF). The flight is most often flown by a AIRBUS Airbus A319. Typical block time is 0h 49m. SkyMeter has observed 80 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

FLIGHTS
80
last 90 days
AVG DURATION
49m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 9/6/2026
first → last seen
🗺
ROUTES / TYPES
6 / 2
city pairs · airframes
INCIDENT RATE
8.8%
7 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

5
67
avg 50m · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County → Buffalo Niagara
KDTW 9G0
7
avg 49m · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County → Buffalo Airfield
3
avg 51m · Coleman A. Young → Buffalo Niagara
KDTW 0G0
1
avg 50m · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County → North Buffalo Suburban
1
avg 50m · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County → Niagara Falls

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

2

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
0
Unstable approach
7
Rejected TO
0
Stall warnings
0
Overspeeds
0
Runway excursion
0
Counts represent flights with at least one occurrence of each flag, not the total event count. See /incidents for individual events.

Recent flights

Newest 30 operations of DAL978

30
8/16/2026
55m
△ Low approach-stability score
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