Flight number record

DL 1468

Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Miami

Route: DTW → MIA
Departs: 08:25
Flights: 340
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1468, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1468 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 340 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1468's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 335 completed flights

Avg delay

47 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.18%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 340 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 1468 flies

DL 1468 flies DTW to MIA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:25, used on 65 of 340 flights, with 08:30 (56 flights) and 07:00 (55 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:2565 flights19.1%
Departs 08:3056 flights16.5%
Departs 07:0055 flights16.2%

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 08:25 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 1468 runs level with that at 84.2%. 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 1468 next to DTW to MIA

Every carrier on DTW to MIA combined arrived on time 80.5% of the time across 1,815 flights, so DL 1468 is 4 points ahead of it. Delta flew 965 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 1468 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1468thin sample	340	84.2%	47 min	1.18%	B
All Delta Air Lines on DTW–MIA	965	78.4%	55 min	0.93%	B+
All carriers on DTW–MIA	1,815	80.5%	65 min	1.38%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1468 quarter by quarter

DL 1468 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 92.2% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 75.3%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 85 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 flights90.0%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights75.3%
Jan–Mar 202666 flights77.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.2%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1468 did best on Monday at 89.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 70.8%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1468 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 52% of the 2,462 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
52%
National Airspace System
43%
Late-arriving aircraft
5%

43% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,047 minutes out of 2,462, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,462 delay minutes reported on DL 1468.

Cancellations sit at 1.18% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% 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 1,145 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.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including MIA to DTW (242) and ATL to HOU (4), but none flew often enough under DL 1468 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DTW to MIA only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 340 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 1468

For a booking, read DL 1468 as 84.2% on time with 1.18% cancelled over 340 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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