Flight number record

DL 1369

Delta Air Lines · Birmingham to Atlanta

Route: BHM → ATL
Departs: 07:45
Flights: 344
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.6 hours. That rests on 344 flights, with a median arrival 18 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1369's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 118 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights

Avg delay

156 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.45%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 344 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 18 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 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 344 flights, with 07:30 (56 flights) and 07:59 (55 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:4596 flights27.9%
Departs 07:3056 flights16.3%
Departs 07:5955 flights16.0%

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 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 89.4%. 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 1369 next to BHM to ATL

Every carrier on BHM to ATL combined arrived on time 88.3% of the time across 3,306 flights, so DL 1369 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

DL 1369 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1369thin sample	344	89.4%	156 min	1.45%	A
All Delta Air Lines on BHM–ATL	3,306	88.3%	89 min	1.72%	A
All carriers on BHM–ATL	3,306	88.3%	89 min	1.72%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1369 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1369 held fairly steady: 94.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 84.6% 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 202587 flights94.3%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights88.6%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights90.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.6%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1369 did best on Friday at 98.0% on time and worst on Monday at 81.2%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1369 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 88% of the 5,623 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.

Carrier
88%
National Airspace System
11%
Late-arriving aircraft
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 88%, 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 4,975 of the 5,623 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,623 delay minutes reported on DL 1369.

Cancellations sit at 1.45% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.6 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

Every one of the 344 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. 344 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 1369

For a booking, DL 1369 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.4% on time and 1.45% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

Where to go next

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.

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