Flight number record

DL 2469

Delta Air Lines · Columbus to Atlanta

Route: CMH → ATL
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2469's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 139 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 352 completed flights

Avg delay

79 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.49%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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.

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%. 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 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 2 points better at 91.5%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 2469 next to CMH to ATL

Every carrier on CMH to ATL combined arrived on time 85.9% of the time across 3,160 flights, so DL 2469 is 6 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,693 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 88.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

DL 2469 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2469thin sample	361	91.5%	79 min	2.49%	A
All Delta Air Lines on CMH–ATL	2,693	88.2%	92 min	1.56%	A
All carriers on CMH–ATL	3,160	85.9%	82 min	1.52%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 90 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 flights96.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.8%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights85.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2469 did best on Sunday at 97.8% on time and worst on Monday at 80.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2469 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 75% of the 2,370 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
75%
National Airspace System
25%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 75%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,776 of the 2,370 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,370 delay minutes reported on DL 2469.

Cancellations sit at 2.49% against a national 1.81%, 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 8.1% 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 91.5% on time with 2.49% cancelled over 361 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.

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