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 47m. SkyMeter has observed 80 legs of this flight number via ADS-B.

FLIGHTS
80
last 90 days
AVG DURATION
47m
tracked time
📅
SERVICE PERIOD
05/27/2025 → 07/19/2026
first → last seen
🗺
ROUTES / TYPES
6 / 2
city pairs · airframes
INCIDENT RATE
7.5%
6 flagged

Routes flown

By count · last 90 days

4
66
avg 49m · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County → Buffalo Niagara
KDTW 9G0
7
avg 45m · 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

Aircraft types

Equipment used on this number

2

Safety profile

Flagged flights · last 90 days

Go-arounds
1
Unstable approach
5
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
07/10/2026
48m
△ Low approach-stability score
07/06/2026
39m
△ Low approach-stability score
06/29/2026
1h 3m
△ Low approach-stability score
06/28/2026
45m
△ Low approach-stability score
06/26/2026
1h 0m
No alerts
06/16/2026
49m
△ Low approach-stability score
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