Flight number record
DL 1269
Delta Air Lines · Philadelphia to Atlanta
- Route
- PHL → ATL
- Departs
- 05:30
- Flights
- 299
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1269, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1269 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 299 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1269's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 131 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 292 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.34%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 299 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 1269 flies
DL 1269 flies PHL to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:30, used on 103 of 299 flights, with 05:15 (73 flights) and 05:40 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 05:30103 flights34.4%
- Departs 05:1573 flights24.4%
- Departs 05:4036 flights12.0%
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 1269 runs level with that at 90.4%. 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 1269 next to PHL to ATL
Every carrier on PHL to ATL combined arrived on time 78.0% of the time across 5,793 flights, so DL 1269 is 12 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,022 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1269thin sample | 299 | 90.4% | 74 min | 2.34% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on PHL–ATL | 3,022 | 83.2% | 70 min | 3.11% | B− |
| All carriers on PHL–ATL | 5,793 | 78.0% | 71 min | 3.11% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1269 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1269 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights87.5%
- Jan–Mar 202628 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.3%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights88.1%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1269 did best on Tuesday at 97.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 79.1%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1269 runs when it is late
DL 1269 often beats the schedule: 159 of 292 completed flights, 54%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 28 late arrivals split 4 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early159 flights54.5%
- Within 15 min105 flights36.0%
- 15–29 min late4 flights1.4%
- 30–59 min late13 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights2.1%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 292 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 24 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1269
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 August 2026, 4 hours 29 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2026 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 March 2026 | 3 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 July 2026 | 3 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 13 July 2026 | 2 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 December 2025 | 2 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1269 runs late
Carrier accounts for 77% of the 2,061 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 77%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 77%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,587 of the 2,061 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,061 delay minutes reported on DL 1269.
Cancellations sit at 2.34% 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 3.8% 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 666 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including ATL to PHL (49), but none flew often enough under DL 1269 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to PHL to ATL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 299 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 1269
For a booking, read DL 1269 as 90.4% on time with 2.34% cancelled over 299 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- PHL to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to PHL, the return direction
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- Frontier Airlines 2551 on the same route73.0%
- Delta Air Lines 1180 on the same route85.0%
- Delta Air Lines 1100 on the same route83.9%
- Delta Air Lines 1169 on the same route77.9%
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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.