Flight number record
DL 1460
Delta Air Lines · Richmond to Atlanta
- Route
- RIC → ATL
- Departs
- 05:35
- Flights
- 355
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1460, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1460 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 355 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1460's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 143 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights
Avg delay
91 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.82%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 355 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 1460 flies
DL 1460 flies RIC to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:35, used on 60 of 355 flights, with 05:40 (58 flights) and 05:45 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 05:3560 flights16.9%
- Departs 05:4058 flights16.3%
- Departs 05:4553 flights14.9%
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 05:35 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1460 runs 2 points better at 91.6%. 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 1460 next to RIC to ATL
Every carrier on RIC to ATL combined arrived on time 88.5% of the time across 2,668 flights, so DL 1460 is 3 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,599 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 89.2% 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 1460thin sample | 355 | 91.6% | 91 min | 2.82% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on RIC–ATL | 2,599 | 89.2% | 91 min | 2.00% | A |
| All carriers on RIC–ATL | 2,668 | 88.5% | 93 min | 2.02% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1460 quarter by quarter
DL 1460 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 82.8%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 71 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 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights90.6%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights91.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights82.8%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1460 did best on Tuesday at 96.0% on time and worst on Monday at 80.4%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1460 runs when it is late
DL 1460 often beats the schedule: 172 of 345 completed flights, 50%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 29 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early172 flights49.9%
- Within 15 min144 flights41.7%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.0%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.9%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 345 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 32 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1460
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 November 2025, 9 hours 7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 10 November 2025 | 9 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 August 2026 | 4 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 June 2026 | 3 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 November 2025 | 3 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 59 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 1460 runs late
Carrier accounts for 81% of the 2,639 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 81%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 81%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,144 of the 2,639 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,639 delay minutes reported on DL 1460.
Cancellations run at 2.82%, against 1.89% 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 3.5% 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.
Every one of the 355 flights under DL 1460 in the data flew RIC 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. 355 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 1460
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1460: 2.82% of its 355 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- RIC to ATL, every carrier and departure
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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.