Flight number record

DL 1681

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Memphis

Route: ATL → MEM
Departs: 14:05
Flights: 296
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1681, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1681 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 296 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1681's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 64 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 289 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.36%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

4.8%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 296 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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.

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Schedule

When DL 1681 flies

DL 1681 flies ATL to MEM without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:05, used on 36 of 296 flights, with 16:42 (33 flights) and 13:26 (31 flights) next.

Departs 14:0536 flights12.2%
Departs 16:4233 flights11.1%
Departs 13:2631 flights10.5%

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 14:05 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 1681 runs 12 points better at 83.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

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Against the route

DL 1681 next to ATL to MEM

Every carrier on ATL to MEM combined arrived on time 81.1% of the time across 3,430 flights, so DL 1681 is 3 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,345 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 1681 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1681thin sample	296	83.7%	59 min	2.36%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MEM	3,345	81.4%	64 min	1.76%	B
All carriers on ATL–MEM	3,430	81.1%	65 min	1.78%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 1681 quarter by quarter

DL 1681 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 89.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 77.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 74 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 202517 flights—
Oct–Dec 202557 flights89.3%
Jan–Mar 202681 flights84.6%
Apr–Jun 202688 flights85.9%
Jul–Sep 202653 flights77.4%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1681 did best on Tuesday at 91.1% on time and worst on Monday at 72.7%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 1681 runs when it is late

The 47 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 14 an hour or more.

15+ min early47 flights16.3%
Within 15 min195 flights67.5%
15–29 min late17 flights5.9%
30–59 min late16 flights5.5%
1–2 hours late9 flights3.1%
2+ hours late5 flights1.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 289 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

9 of 50 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 1681

The latest arrival of the period was on 14 August 2026, 5 hours 44 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across August, July and June, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of DL 1681 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
14 August 2026	5 hours 44 minutes	Carrier
4 August 2026	3 hours 57 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
3 July 2026	3 hours 10 minutes	National Airspace System
16 July 2026	2 hours 38 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
16 June 2026	2 hours 24 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 1681 runs late

Carrier accounts for 56% of the 2,775 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
56%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
5%

The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,558 of the 2,775 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,775 delay minutes reported on DL 1681.

Cancellations sit at 2.36% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including MEM to ATL (233) and FLL to JFK (16), but none flew often enough under DL 1681 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to MEM only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 296 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 1681

For a booking, read DL 1681 as 83.7% on time with 2.36% cancelled over 296 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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