Flight number record

DL 3160

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Cincinnati

Route: ATL → CVG
Departs: 09:50
Flights: 255
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3160, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 3160 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 255 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 3160's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 114 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 247 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.35%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

3.2%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 255 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 3160 flies

DL 3160 flies ATL to CVG without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:50, used on 74 of 255 flights, with 09:18 (31 flights) next.

Departs 09:5074 flights29.0%
Departs 09:1831 flights12.2%

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 09:50 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 3160 runs 5 points better at 88.7%. 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 3160 next to ATL to CVG

Every carrier on ATL to CVG combined arrived on time 81.4% of the time across 3,009 flights, so DL 3160 is 7 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,715 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

DL 3160 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 3160thin sample	255	88.7%	59 min	2.35%	A
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–CVG	2,715	82.4%	57 min	1.25%	B
All carriers on ATL–CVG	3,009	81.4%	60 min	1.23%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 3160 quarter by quarter

DL 3160 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 81.6%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 85 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.

Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
Jan–Mar 202690 flights81.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.2%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.3%

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

By weekday, DL 3160 ranged from 82.9% on Tuesday to 94.3% on Wednesday. With about 36 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 3160 runs when it is late

The 28 late arrivals split 9 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.

15+ min early49 flights19.8%
Within 15 min170 flights68.8%
15–29 min late9 flights3.6%
30–59 min late11 flights4.5%
1–2 hours late6 flights2.4%
2+ hours late2 flights0.8%

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Share of 247 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 29 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 3160

The latest arrival of the period was on 21 July 2026, 6 hours 1 minute 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.

The latest arrivals of DL 3160 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
21 July 2026	6 hours 1 minute	Carrier
16 March 2026	2 hours 51 minutes	Carrier
23 January 2026	1 hour 40 minutes	Carrier
13 January 2026	1 hour 34 minutes	Carrier
17 March 2026	1 hour 33 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 3160 runs late

Carrier accounts for 86% of the 1,663 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
86%
Late-arriving aircraft
6%
National Airspace System
6%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 86%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,436 of the 1,663 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,663 delay minutes reported on DL 3160.

Cancellations sit at 2.35% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.78%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.2% 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 one other city pair in the data, including CVG to ATL (32), but none flew often enough under DL 3160 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to CVG only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 255 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 3160

For a booking, read DL 3160 as 88.7% on time with 2.35% cancelled over 255 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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