Flight number record
DL 1069
Delta Air Lines · Houston to Atlanta
- Route
- IAH → ATL
- Departs
- 05:30
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1069's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 134 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
52 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.74%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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.
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 132 of 365 flights, with 05:45 (54 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 05:30132 flights36.2%
- Departs 05:4554 flights14.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
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 level with that at 91.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
DL 1069 next to IAH to ATL
Every carrier on IAH to ATL combined arrived on time 77.5% of the time across 4,906 flights, so DL 1069 is 14 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,507 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1069 | 365 | 91.0% | 52 min | 2.74% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on IAH–ATL | 2,507 | 80.2% | 66 min | 2.07% | B |
| All carriers on IAH–ATL | 4,906 | 77.5% | 67 min | 1.92% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 1069 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1069 held fairly steady: 94.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 94.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights94.4%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights90.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights84.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1069 did best on Wednesday at 96.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 84.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 1069 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 79% of the 1,651 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 79%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 79%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,308 of the 1,651 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,651 delay minutes reported on DL 1069.
Cancellations run at 2.74%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.3% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
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
Booking DL 1069
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1069: 2.74% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs roughly 50 minutes, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- IAH to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to IAH, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1315 on the same route88.5%
- Frontier Airlines 1404 on the same route66.9%
- Delta Air Lines 1682 on the same route76.6%
- Delta Air Lines 1585 on the same route77.8%
- Delta Air Lines 1572 on the same route78.9%
- Frontier Airlines 2400 on the same route53.3%
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.