Flight number record
DL 1462
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Richmond
- Route
- ATL → RIC
- Departs
- 07:25
- Flights
- 292
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1462, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1462 earns an A−. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 40 minutes. That rests on 292 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1462's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 159 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 280 completed flights
Avg delay
39 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.11%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 292 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 1462 flies
DL 1462 flies ATL to RIC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:25, used on 121 of 292 flights, with 07:30 (62 flights) and 07:36 (49 flights) next.
- Departs 07:25121 flights41.4%
- Departs 07:3062 flights21.2%
- Departs 07:3649 flights16.8%
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 07:25 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1462 runs 4 points better at 93.2%. 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 1462 next to ATL to RIC
Every carrier on ATL to RIC combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 2,668 flights, so DL 1462 is 12 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 82.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1462thin sample | 292 | 93.2% | 39 min | 4.11% | A− |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–RIC | 2,599 | 82.1% | 57 min | 1.96% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–RIC | 2,668 | 81.6% | 57 min | 1.99% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1462 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1462 held fairly steady: 93.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 92.1% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 98.0% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202517 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202564 flights93.4%
- Jan–Mar 202682 flights93.5%
- Apr–Jun 202677 flights92.1%
- Jul–Sep 202652 flights98.0%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1462 ranged from 89.1% on Monday to 97.8% on Thursday. With about 42 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1462 runs when it is late
The 19 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 5 an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early56 flights20.0%
- Within 15 min205 flights73.2%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.5%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.5%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.8%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 280 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 17 of 280 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1462
The latest arrival of the period was on 24 February 2026, 1 hour 11 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 24 February 2026 | 1 hour 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 October 2025 | 1 hour 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 September 2025 | 1 hour 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 March 2026 | 1 hour 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 June 2026 | 1 hour 1 minute | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 1462 runs late
Carrier accounts for 72% of the 737 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 72%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 72%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 530 of the 737 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 737 delay minutes reported on DL 1462.
Cancellations run at 4.11%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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 1.8% 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.
DL 1462 is not only a ATL to RIC flight. It also flew RIC to ATL (291 flights, 93.5% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 292 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RIC to ATLthin sample | 291 | 93.5% | 93 min | 4.12% | A− |
What to do with this
Booking DL 1462
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1462: 4.11% of its 292 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs roughly 40 minutes, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to RIC, every carrier and departure
- RIC to ATL, the return direction
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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.