Flight Status & Tracker

DAL978

DELTA AIR LINES INC · DTW → BUF · Last tracked Oct 17, 2026

DAL978 is a flight number operated by DELTA AIR LINES INC between Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (KDTW) and Buffalo Niagara International Airport (KBUF). SkyMeter last tracked DAL978 on October 17, 2026. The flight is most often flown by a AIRBUS Airbus A319. Typical block time is 0h 48m. SkyMeter has observed 70 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

SkyMeter tracks historical flight activity from ADS-B data — this is not a live gate-to-gate status feed.

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FLIGHTS
70
last 90 days
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AVG DURATION
48m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
5/27/2025 → 10/17/2026
first → last seen
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ROUTES / TYPES
5 / 2
city pairs · airframes
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INCIDENT RATE
4.3%
3 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

3
63
avg 48m · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County → Buffalo Niagara
KDTW → 9G0
4
avg 49m · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County → Buffalo Airfield
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
3
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
9/19/2026
50m
△ Low approach-stability score
9/15/2026
50m
△ Low approach-stability score
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