Flight number record

DL 1470

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Kansas City

Route: ATL → MCI
Departs: 16:25
Flights: 319
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1470, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1470 lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About 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 319 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

On time

79.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 314 completed flights

Avg delay

52 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.25%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 319 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.

Schedule

When DL 1470 flies

DL 1470 flies ATL to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:25, used on 60 of 319 flights, with 16:30 (34 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:2560 flights18.8%
Departs 16:3034 flights10.7%

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 16:25 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 1470 runs 7 points better at 79.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 1470 next to ATL to MCI

Every carrier on ATL to MCI combined arrived on time 82.8% of the time across 3,281 flights, so DL 1470 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 2,758 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

DL 1470 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1470thin sample	319	79.0%	52 min	1.25%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MCI	2,758	84.6%	57 min	1.38%	B
All carriers on ATL–MCI	3,281	82.8%	58 min	1.19%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1470 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1470 held fairly steady: 80.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 77.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 76.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 80.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202573 flights80.8%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights77.5%
Jan–Mar 202667 flights76.9%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights80.5%

Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1470 did best on Tuesday at 90.2% on time and worst on Friday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1470 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 49% of the 3,431 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
49%
National Airspace System
26%
Late-arriving aircraft
22%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 49%, 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 1,673 of the 3,431 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,431 delay minutes reported on DL 1470.

Cancellations sit at 1.25% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.31%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 50 minutes, 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. 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 one other city pair in the data, including MCI to ATL (234), 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. 319 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, read DL 1470 as 79.0% on time with 1.25% cancelled over 319 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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