Flight number record
DL 1470
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Kansas City
- Route
- ATL → MCI
- Departs
- 17:45
- Flights
- 328
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1470, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1470 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 328 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
Key figures
On time
76.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 322 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.52%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 328 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 1470 flies
DL 1470 flies ATL to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:45, used on 42 of 328 flights.
- Departs 17:4542 flights12.8%
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 17:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 1470 runs 8 points better at 76.4%. 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 1470 next to ATL to MCI
Every carrier on ATL to MCI combined arrived on time 82.6% of the time across 3,246 flights, so DL 1470 is 6 points behind it. Delta flew 2,707 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1470thin sample | 328 | 76.4% | 63 min | 1.52% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MCI | 2,707 | 84.0% | 60 min | 1.33% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–MCI | 3,246 | 82.6% | 59 min | 1.14% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1470 quarter by quarter
DL 1470 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 80.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 63.9%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 82 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 202520 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights77.5%
- Jan–Mar 202667 flights76.9%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights80.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights63.9%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1470 did best on Tuesday at 88.1% on time and worst on Friday at 65.3%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1470 runs when it is late
The 76 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 27 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early36 flights11.2%
- Within 15 min210 flights65.2%
- 15–29 min late28 flights8.7%
- 30–59 min late21 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights5.3%
- 2+ hours late10 flights3.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 322 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 68 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 7 made it up before arrival. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1470
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 July 2026, 4 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 July 2026 | 4 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 June 2026 | 4 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 July 2026 | 3 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 May 2026 | 3 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 November 2025 | 3 hours 27 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 1470 runs late
Carrier accounts for 42% of the 4,801 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Carrier
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,030 of the 4,801 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,801 delay minutes reported on DL 1470.
Cancellations sit at 1.52% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 692 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 one other city pair in the data, including MCI to ATL (192), but none flew often enough under DL 1470 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to MCI only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 328 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 1470
For a booking, DL 1470 is one of the weaker ways to fly ATL to MCI: 6 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
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Where to go next
- ATL to MCI, every carrier and departure
- MCI to ATL, the return direction
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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.