Flight number record

DL 1462

Delta Air Lines · Richmond to Atlanta

Route: RIC → ATL
Departs: 10:04
Flights: 301
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1462, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1462 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 301 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1462's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 142 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 292 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.99%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 301 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 1462 flies

DL 1462 flies RIC to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:04, used on 91 of 301 flights, with 10:00 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 10:0491 flights30.2%
Departs 10:0031 flights10.3%

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 10:04 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 1462 runs 8 points better at 91.8%. 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 1462 next to RIC to ATL

Every carrier on RIC to ATL combined arrived on time 88.7% of the time across 2,693 flights, so DL 1462 is 3 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,624 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 89.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

DL 1462 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1462thin sample	301	91.8%	75 min	2.99%	A
All Delta Air Lines on RIC–ATL	2,624	89.3%	87 min	1.87%	A
All carriers on RIC–ATL	2,693	88.7%	89 min	1.89%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1462 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1462 held fairly steady: 87.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 96.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 92.4% in Apr–Jun 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 202592 flights87.0%
Oct–Dec 202570 flights94.0%
Jan–Mar 202659 flights96.3%
Apr–Jun 202680 flights92.4%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1462 did best on Tuesday at 100.0% on time and worst on Friday at 84.4%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1462 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 59% of the 1,806 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
59%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
National Airspace System
13%

The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, 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 1,071 of the 1,806 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,806 delay minutes reported on DL 1462.

Cancellations run at 2.99%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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 2.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 RIC to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to RIC (283 flights, 91.2% 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. 301 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.

Other routes flown as DL 1462
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ATL to RICthin sample	283	91.2%	42 min	3.18%	A−

What to do with this

Booking DL 1462

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1462: 2.99% of its 301 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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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