Flight number record
DL 1069
Delta Air Lines · Houston to Atlanta
- Route
- IAH → ATL
- Departs
- 05:30
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1069, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1069 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1069's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 146 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
51 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.19%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When DL 1069 flies
DL 1069 flies IAH to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:30, used on 91 of 365 flights, with 05:40 (57 flights) next.
- Departs 05:3091 flights24.9%
- Departs 05:4057 flights15.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 05:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1069 runs 3 points better at 91.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 1069 next to IAH to ATL
Every carrier on IAH to ATL combined arrived on time 76.8% of the time across 4,960 flights, so DL 1069 is 15 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,543 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1069 | 365 | 91.9% | 51 min | 2.19% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on IAH–ATL | 2,543 | 80.4% | 70 min | 2.04% | B |
| All carriers on IAH–ATL | 4,960 | 76.8% | 68 min | 1.92% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1069 quarter by quarter
DL 1069 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 98.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 84.9%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 73 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights90.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights84.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights98.4%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1069 did best on Wednesday at 98.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 82.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1069 runs when it is late
DL 1069 often beats the schedule: 90 of 357 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 19 of the 29 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 7 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early90 flights25.2%
- Within 15 min238 flights66.7%
- 15–29 min late19 flights5.3%
- 30–59 min late3 flights0.8%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.6%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 357 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 21 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 7 still arrived on time. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1069
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 October 2025, 4 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 October 2025 | 4 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 December 2025 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 May 2026 | 2 hours 10 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 9 December 2025 | 2 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 January 2026 | 2 hours | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1069 runs late
Carrier accounts for 77% of the 1,485 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 77%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 77%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,144 of the 1,485 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,485 delay minutes reported on DL 1069.
Cancellations sit at 2.19% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 689 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 1069 in the data flew IAH to ATL. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
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For a booking, read DL 1069 as 91.9% on time with 2.19% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- IAH to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to IAH, the return direction
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- United Airlines 1030 on the same route90.6%
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A flight number here means Delta Air Lines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.