Flight number record

DL 1600

Delta Air Lines · Fort Myers to Cincinnati

Route: RSW → CVG
Departs: 12:00
Flights: 262
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1600, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1600 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.2 hours. That rests on 262 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1600's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 77 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 259 completed flights

Avg delay

132 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.15%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 262 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 1600 flies

DL 1600 flies RSW to CVG without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:00, used on 61 of 262 flights, with 10:27 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:0061 flights23.3%
Departs 10:2736 flights13.7%

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 12:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 1600 runs 7 points better at 85.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 1600 next to RSW to CVG

Every carrier on RSW to CVG combined arrived on time 81.2% of the time across 677 flights, so DL 1600 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

DL 1600 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1600thin sample	262	85.3%	132 min	1.15%	A
All Delta Air Lines on RSW–CVGthin sample	364	85.6%	119 min	0.82%	A+
All carriers on RSW–CVG	677	81.2%	101 min	1.33%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1600 quarter by quarter

DL 1600 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.5% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 78.4%, a swing of 17 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 flights85.6%
Oct–Dec 202514 flights—
Jan–Mar 202689 flights78.4%
Apr–Jun 202667 flights95.5%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1600 ranged from 80.6% on Sunday to 92.1% on Saturday. With about 37 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 1600 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 57% of the 5,029 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
57%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
9%

The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, 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 2,881 of the 5,029 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,029 delay minutes reported on DL 1600.

Cancellations sit at 1.15% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.7% 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 about 2.2 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 879 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 CVG to RSW (236), but none flew often enough under DL 1600 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to RSW to CVG only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 262 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 1600

For a booking, DL 1600 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.3% on time and 1.15% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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