Flight number record
DL 1468
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Miami
- Route
- DTW → MIA
- Departs
- 08:30
- Flights
- 340
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1468, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1468 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 340 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1468's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 336 completed flights
Avg delay
46 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.18%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 340 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 1468 flies
DL 1468 flies DTW to MIA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:30, used on 56 of 340 flights, with 09:22 (56 flights) and 07:00 (55 flights) next.
- Departs 08:3056 flights16.5%
- Departs 09:2256 flights16.5%
- Departs 07:0055 flights16.2%
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 08:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 1468 runs level with that at 85.4%. 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 1468 next to DTW to MIA
Every carrier on DTW to MIA combined arrived on time 80.7% of the time across 1,757 flights, so DL 1468 is 5 points ahead of it. Delta flew 929 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1468thin sample | 340 | 85.4% | 46 min | 1.18% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–MIA | 929 | 79.1% | 55 min | 1.08% | B |
| All carriers on DTW–MIA | 1,757 | 80.7% | 63 min | 1.42% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1468 quarter by quarter
DL 1468 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 75.3%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 68 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 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights75.3%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights77.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights96.7%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1468 did best on Wednesday at 89.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 72.3%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1468 runs when it is late
DL 1468 often beats the schedule: 86 of 336 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 49 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early86 flights25.6%
- Within 15 min201 flights59.8%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.3%
- 30–59 min late17 flights5.1%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.1%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 336 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 33 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 15 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 31 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MIA.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1468
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 January 2026, 2 hours 43 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | 2 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 December 2025 | 2 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 June 2026 | 2 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 April 2026 | 2 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 4 May 2026 | 1 hour 56 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1468 runs late
Carrier accounts for 53% of the 2,232 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Carrier
- 45%National Airspace System
- 2%Late-arriving aircraft
45% 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 1,015 minutes out of 2,232, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,232 delay minutes reported on DL 1468.
Cancellations sit at 1.18% against a national 1.89%, 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 3.3% 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.
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.
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, DL 1468 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.4% on time and 1.18% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
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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.