Flight number record

DL 1469

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Cincinnati

Route: MSP → CVG
Departs: 20:20
Flights: 348
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

78.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights

Avg delay

51 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.86%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 348 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 121 of 348 flights, with 19:45 (62 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:20121 flights34.8%
Departs 19:4562 flights17.8%

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 20:20 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 1469 runs 8 points better at 78.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 1469 next to MSP to CVG

Every carrier on MSP to CVG combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 826 flights, so DL 1469 is about level with it. Delta flew 821 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

DL 1469 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1469thin sample	348	78.0%	51 min	0.86%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–CVG	821	78.6%	59 min	0.61%	B+
All carriers on MSP–CVG	826	78.6%	59 min	0.61%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1469 quarter by quarter

DL 1469 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 84.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 68.7%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 87 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 flights81.5%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights84.8%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights68.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%

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

By weekday, DL 1469 did best on Wednesday at 94.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 62.5%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 32 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1469 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 51% of the 3,903 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
51%
National Airspace System
24%
Late-arriving aircraft
18%
Extreme weather
6%

The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, 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 2,002 of the 3,903 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,903 delay minutes reported on DL 1469.

Cancellations are rare at 0.86%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% 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 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. 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.

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

Booking DL 1469

For a booking, read DL 1469 as 78.0% on time with 0.86% cancelled over 348 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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