Flight number record
DL 1616
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to White Plains
- Route
- ATL → HPN
- Departs
- 19:59
- Flights
- 343
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1616, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1616 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 343 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 327 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.62%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 343 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 1616 flies
DL 1616 flies ATL to HPN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:59, used on 118 of 343 flights, with 19:45 (84 flights) and 19:53 (75 flights) next.
- Departs 19:59118 flights34.4%
- Departs 19:4584 flights24.5%
- Departs 19:5375 flights21.9%
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 19:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 1616 runs 6 points better at 74.0%. 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 1616 next to ATL to HPN
Every carrier on ATL to HPN combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 717 flights, so DL 1616 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1616thin sample | 343 | 74.0% | 80 min | 2.62% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–HPN | 717 | 77.6% | 66 min | 2.79% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–HPN | 717 | 77.6% | 66 min | 2.79% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1616 quarter by quarter
DL 1616 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 80.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 65.5%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 86 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 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights67.5%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights75.9%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights80.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights65.5%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1616 did best on Wednesday at 81.2% on time and worst on Friday at 67.3%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1616 runs when it is late
DL 1616 often beats the schedule: 84 of 327 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 85 late arrivals split 29 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 33 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early84 flights25.7%
- Within 15 min158 flights48.3%
- 15–29 min late29 flights8.9%
- 30–59 min late23 flights7.0%
- 1–2 hours late23 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late10 flights3.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 327 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 84 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1616
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 November 2025, 13 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across November, October, September, July and March, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2025 | 13 hours 42 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 October 2025 | 12 hours 9 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 12 September 2025 | 11 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 July 2026 | 3 hours 31 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 17 March 2026 | 3 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1616 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 6,810 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Carrier
- 27%National Airspace System
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 13% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,810 delay minutes reported on DL 1616.
Cancellations run at 2.62%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
10.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 781 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 DEN to MSP (16), but none flew often enough under DL 1616 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to HPN only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 343 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 1616
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1616: 2.62% of its 343 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to HPN, every carrier and departure
- HPN to ATL, the return direction
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 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
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.