Flight number record

DL 1465

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to San Antonio

Route: ATL → SAT
Departs: 15:40
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1465, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1465 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 40 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

77.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights

Avg delay

42 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.66%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 1465 flies

DL 1465 flies ATL to SAT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:40, used on 97 of 361 flights, with 15:45 (43 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:4097 flights26.9%
Departs 15:4543 flights11.9%

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 15:40 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 1465 runs 5 points better at 77.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 1465 next to ATL to SAT

Every carrier on ATL to SAT combined arrived on time 81.2% of the time across 3,027 flights, so DL 1465 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 2,610 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

DL 1465 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1465thin sample	361	77.5%	42 min	1.66%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–SAT	2,610	81.5%	53 min	1.69%	B
All carriers on ATL–SAT	3,027	81.2%	55 min	1.49%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1465 quarter by quarter

DL 1465 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 84.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 69.2%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 90 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 202592 flights69.2%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights81.8%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights74.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.3%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1465 ranged from 72.0% on Friday to 82.4% on Wednesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 1465 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,344 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
39%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
National Airspace System
27%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, 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 1,291 of the 3,344 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,344 delay minutes reported on DL 1465.

Cancellations sit at 1.66% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% 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.

The 874 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

DL 1465 is not only a ATL to SAT flight. It also flew SAT to ATL (263 flights, 84.0% 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. 361 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 1465
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SAT to ATLthin sample	263	84.0%	56 min	2.28%	B

What to do with this

Booking DL 1465

For a booking, read DL 1465 as 77.5% on time with 1.66% cancelled over 361 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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