Flight number record
DL 1693
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Nashville
- Route
- ATL → BNA
- Departs
- 16:54
- Flights
- 253
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1693, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1693 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 40 minutes on average. That rests on 253 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
Key figures
On time
76.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 247 completed flights
Avg delay
40 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.98%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 253 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 1693 flies
DL 1693 flies ATL to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:54, used on 36 of 253 flights, with 16:41 (27 flights) next.
- Departs 16:5436 flights14.2%
- Departs 16:4127 flights10.7%
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 16:54 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 1693 runs 5 points better at 76.9%. 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 1693 next to ATL to BNA
Every carrier on ATL to BNA combined arrived on time 79.6% of the time across 4,258 flights, so DL 1693 is 3 points behind it. Delta flew 3,369 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1693thin sample | 253 | 76.9% | 40 min | 1.98% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–BNA | 3,369 | 80.6% | 56 min | 1.90% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–BNA | 4,258 | 79.6% | 59 min | 1.62% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1693 quarter by quarter
DL 1693 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 88.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 72.4%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 84 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 202520 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights72.4%
- Jan–Mar 202664 flights88.7%
- Apr–Jun 202667 flights75.8%
- Jul–Sep 202624 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1693 did best on Thursday at 89.2% on time and worst on Monday at 62.2%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1693 runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 33 of the 57 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 12 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early8 flights3.2%
- Within 15 min182 flights73.7%
- 15–29 min late33 flights13.4%
- 30–59 min late12 flights4.9%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 247 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 42 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 23 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at BNA.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1693
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 3 hours 47 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 August 2026 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 October 2025 | 1 hour 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 December 2025 | 1 hour 15 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 10 May 2026 | 1 hour 15 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1693 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 2,275 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Carrier
- 32%National Airspace System
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 945 of the 2,275 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,275 delay minutes reported on DL 1693.
Cancellations sit at 1.98% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.40%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% 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 BNA to ATL (209) and MEM to ATL (4), but none flew often enough under DL 1693 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to BNA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 253 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 1693
For a booking, read DL 1693 as 76.9% on time with 1.98% cancelled over 253 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.