Flight number record
DL 1469
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Cincinnati
- Route
- MSP → CVG
- Departs
- 20:20
- Flights
- 348
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1469, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1469 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 45 minutes on average. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights
Avg delay
47 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.15%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 348 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 1469 flies
DL 1469 flies MSP to CVG without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:20, used on 92 of 348 flights, with 19:45 (62 flights) next.
- Departs 20:2092 flights26.4%
- Departs 19:4562 flights17.8%
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 20:20 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 1469 runs 8 points better at 77.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 1469 next to MSP to CVG
Every carrier on MSP to CVG combined arrived on time 80.0% of the time across 832 flights, so DL 1469 is 2 points behind it. Delta flew 826 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1469thin sample | 348 | 77.6% | 47 min | 1.15% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–CVG | 826 | 80.0% | 57 min | 0.97% | B+ |
| All carriers on MSP–CVG | 832 | 80.0% | 57 min | 0.96% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1469 quarter by quarter
DL 1469 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 68.7%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 70 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 202579 flights84.8%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights68.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights75.4%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 1469 did best on Wednesday at 92.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 64.6%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1469 runs when it is late
DL 1469 often beats the schedule: 109 of 344 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 77 late arrivals split 35 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early109 flights31.7%
- Within 15 min158 flights45.9%
- 15–29 min late35 flights10.2%
- 30–59 min late26 flights7.6%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.5%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 344 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 73 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. In the other direction, 19 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 CVG.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1469
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 May 2026, 4 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 May 2026 | 4 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 November 2025 | 3 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 April 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 July 2026 | 1 hour 59 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 1469 runs late
Carrier accounts for 48% of the 3,642 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,762 of the 3,642 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,642 delay minutes reported on DL 1469.
Cancellations sit at 1.15% 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 4.7% 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 596 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.
Every one of the 348 flights under DL 1469 in the data flew MSP to CVG. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 348 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
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For a booking, read DL 1469 as 77.6% on time with 1.15% cancelled over 348 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to CVG, every carrier and departure
- CVG to MSP, the return direction
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.