Flight number record
DL 2469
Delta Air Lines · Columbus to Atlanta
- Route
- CMH → ATL
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2469, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2469 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2469's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 136 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.22%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 2469 flies
DL 2469 is scheduled to leave Columbus (CMH) at 06:00 local time and reach Atlanta (ATL) at 07:35. That slot held for 299 of the 361 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 06:00299 flights82.8%
- Departs 06:0562 flights17.2%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2469 runs level with that at 90.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2469 next to CMH to ATL
Every carrier on CMH to ATL combined arrived on time 84.8% of the time across 3,129 flights, so DL 2469 is 6 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,678 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2469thin sample | 361 | 90.9% | 76 min | 2.22% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on CMH–ATL | 2,678 | 87.1% | 91 min | 1.38% | A |
| All carriers on CMH–ATL | 3,129 | 84.8% | 82 min | 1.44% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2469 quarter by quarter
DL 2469 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 85.2%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 72 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.8%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights85.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.5%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2469 did best on Sunday at 95.7% on time and worst on Monday at 80.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2469 runs when it is late
DL 2469 often beats the schedule: 189 of 353 completed flights, 54%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 32 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early189 flights53.5%
- Within 15 min132 flights37.4%
- 15–29 min late12 flights3.4%
- 30–59 min late9 flights2.5%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 353 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 25 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2469
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 February 2026, 4 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 February 2026 | 4 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 March 2026 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 December 2025 | 3 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 March 2026 | 3 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 July 2026 | 3 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2469 runs late
Carrier accounts for 75% of the 2,431 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 75%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 75%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,824 of the 2,431 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,431 delay minutes reported on DL 2469.
Cancellations sit at 2.22% 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 3.1% 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.
Every one of the 361 flights under DL 2469 in the data flew CMH to ATL. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 361 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 2469
For a booking, read DL 2469 as 90.9% on time with 2.22% cancelled over 361 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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- CMH to ATL, every carrier and departure
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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.