Flight number record

DL 1693

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Nashville

Route: ATL → BNA
Departs: 16:54
Flights: 282
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1693, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1693 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 282 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.

On time

76.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 277 completed flights

Avg delay

47 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.77%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 282 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 282 flights, with 17:18 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:5436 flights12.8%
Departs 17:1835 flights12.4%

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 16:54 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 1693 runs 4 points better at 76.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 1693 next to ATL to BNA

Every carrier on ATL to BNA combined arrived on time 81.4% of the time across 4,242 flights, so DL 1693 is 5 points behind it. Delta flew 3,361 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 5 points.

DL 1693 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1693thin sample	282	76.2%	47 min	1.77%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–BNA	3,361	82.0%	56 min	1.90%	B
All carriers on ATL–BNA	4,242	81.4%	58 min	1.60%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 Jul–Sep 2025 at 69.9%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 71 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 202573 flights69.9%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights72.4%
Jan–Mar 202664 flights88.7%
Apr–Jun 202667 flights75.8%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1693 did best on Thursday at 82.9% on time and worst on Monday at 62.5%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

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 3,086 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
32%
Carrier
29%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
Extreme weather
15%

Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,086 delay minutes reported on DL 1693.

Cancellations sit at 1.77% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.1% 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 roughly 45 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including BNA to ATL (233) 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. 282 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, DL 1693 is one of the weaker ways to fly ATL to BNA: 5 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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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