Flight number record
DL 3069
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Nashville
- Route
- ATL → BNA
- Departs
- 08:31
- Flights
- 325
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3069, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 3069 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 325 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 3069's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 154 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 317 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.15%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 325 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 3069 flies
DL 3069 flies ATL to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:31, used on 81 of 325 flights, with 08:05 (70 flights) and 08:25 (66 flights) next.
- Departs 08:3181 flights24.9%
- Departs 08:0570 flights21.5%
- Departs 08:2566 flights20.3%
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 08:31 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 3069 runs 9 points better at 92.7%. 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 3069 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 3069 is 13 points ahead of 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 beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 3069thin sample | 325 | 92.7% | 63 min | 2.15% | A |
| 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 3069 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 3069 held fairly steady: 92.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.7% in Jan–Mar 2026, 95.5% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 95.2% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights92.2%
- Jan–Mar 202662 flights86.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights95.2%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 3069 ranged from 87.2% on Tuesday to 97.8% on Wednesday. With about 46 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 3069 runs when it is late
The 23 late arrivals split 6 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early74 flights23.3%
- Within 15 min220 flights69.4%
- 15–29 min late6 flights1.9%
- 30–59 min late6 flights1.9%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.2%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 317 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 20 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 3069
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 3 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across December, March, October, May and June, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 3 hours 7 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 19 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 20 October 2025 | 2 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 May 2026 | 2 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 2 June 2026 | 1 hour 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 3069 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 1,454 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 20%Extreme weather
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,454 delay minutes reported on DL 3069.
Cancellations sit at 2.15% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.31%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.5% 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.
DL 3069 is not only a ATL to BNA flight. It also flew BNA to ATL (279 flights, 92.0% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 325 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BNA to ATLthin sample | 279 | 92.0% | 81 min | 1.79% | A |
What to do with this
Booking DL 3069
For a booking, read DL 3069 as 92.7% on time with 2.15% cancelled over 325 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- ATL to BNA, 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.