Flight number record
DL 1369
Delta Air Lines · Birmingham to Atlanta
- Route
- BHM → ATL
- Departs
- 07:45
- Flights
- 349
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1369, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1369 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.3 hours. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1369's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 102 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights
Avg delay
135 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.72%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 349 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 1369 flies
DL 1369 flies BHM to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:45, used on 96 of 349 flights, with 07:59 (55 flights) and 07:28 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 07:4596 flights27.5%
- Departs 07:5955 flights15.8%
- Departs 07:2853 flights15.2%
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 07:45 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1369 runs level with that at 87.5%. 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 1369 next to BHM to ATL
Every carrier on BHM to ATL combined arrived on time 87.2% of the time across 3,371 flights, so DL 1369 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1369thin sample | 349 | 87.5% | 135 min | 1.72% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on BHM–ATL | 3,371 | 87.2% | 83 min | 1.72% | A |
| All carriers on BHM–ATL | 3,371 | 87.2% | 83 min | 1.72% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1369 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1369 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 84.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 83.6% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights88.6%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights90.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.6%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1369 did best on Friday at 100.0% on time and worst on Monday at 79.2%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1369 runs when it is late
DL 1369 often beats the schedule: 190 of 343 completed flights, 55%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 43 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early190 flights55.4%
- Within 15 min110 flights32.1%
- 15–29 min late10 flights2.9%
- 30–59 min late15 flights4.4%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 343 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 40 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. Only 6 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1369
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 December 2025, 12 hours 37 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 4 December 2025 | 12 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 May 2026 | 12 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 November 2025 | 10 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 May 2026 | 10 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 June 2026 | 5 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1369 runs late
Carrier accounts for 88% of the 5,822 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 88%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 0%Late-arriving aircraft
- 0%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 88%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,132 of the 5,822 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,822 delay minutes reported on DL 1369.
Cancellations sit at 1.72% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.3 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
Every one of the 349 flights under DL 1369 in the data flew BHM 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. 349 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 1369 as 87.5% on time with 1.72% cancelled over 349 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.