Flight number record

DL 1616

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to White Plains

Route: ATL → HPN
Departs: 19:59
Flights: 343
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 343 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

On time

73.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 330 completed flights

Avg delay

82 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.33%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

10.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 343 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

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 148 of 343 flights, with 19:45 (84 flights) and 19:53 (75 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:59148 flights43.1%
Departs 19:4584 flights24.5%
Departs 19:5375 flights21.9%

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 19:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 1616 runs 6 points better at 73.9%. 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 1616 next to ATL to HPN

Every carrier on ATL to HPN combined arrived on time 77.9% of the time across 717 flights, so DL 1616 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 8 points.

DL 1616 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1616thin sample	343	73.9%	82 min	2.33%	C
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–HPN	717	77.9%	67 min	2.51%	B
All carriers on ATL–HPN	717	77.9%	67 min	2.51%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.5%, a swing of 13 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 202592 flights72.2%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights67.5%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights75.9%
Apr–Jun 202685 flights80.2%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1616 did best on Saturday at 82.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 68.9%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

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 7,070 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
39%
National Airspace System
25%
Late-arriving aircraft
24%
Extreme weather
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,070 delay minutes reported on DL 1616.

Cancellations sit at 2.33% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.46%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. 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 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, read DL 1616 as 73.9% on time with 2.33% cancelled over 343 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.

Key figures