Flight number record
DL 460
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to New York
- Route
- ATL → LGA
- Departs
- 13:30
- Flights
- 340
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 460, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 460 lands a B−, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 340 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 325 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.24%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 340 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 460 flies
DL 460 is scheduled to leave Atlanta (ATL) at 13:30 local time and reach New York (LGA) at 15:43. That slot held for 321 of the 340 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 13:30321 flights94.4%
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 13:30 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 460 runs 2 points worse at 76.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 460 next to ATL to LGA
Every carrier on ATL to LGA combined arrived on time 72.3% of the time across 8,502 flights, so DL 460 is 4 points ahead of it. Delta flew 4,937 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 460thin sample | 340 | 76.3% | 58 min | 3.24% | B− |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–LGA | 4,937 | 75.9% | 66 min | 3.48% | B− |
| All carriers on ATL–LGA | 8,502 | 72.3% | 79 min | 4.34% | C− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 460 quarter by quarter
DL 460 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 79.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.1%, a swing of 13 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.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202581 flights67.1%
- Jan–Mar 202678 flights79.7%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights73.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights78.9%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 460 did best on Wednesday at 86.5% on time and worst on Monday at 64.7%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 460 runs when it is late
DL 460 often beats the schedule: 82 of 325 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 77 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 29 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early82 flights25.2%
- Within 15 min166 flights51.1%
- 15–29 min late27 flights8.3%
- 30–59 min late29 flights8.9%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.7%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 325 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 81 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 460
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 October 2025, 5 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across October, December, November and March, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 October 2025 | 5 hours 32 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 December 2025 | 5 hours 31 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 10 November 2025 | 2 hours 33 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 8 December 2025 | 2 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 460 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 54% of the 4,432 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%National Airspace System
- 30%Carrier
- 11%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%Extreme weather
54% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,386 minutes out of 4,432, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,432 delay minutes reported on DL 460.
Cancellations run at 3.24%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 762 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including JFK to PSP (1), but none flew often enough under DL 460 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to LGA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 340 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 460
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 460: 3.24% of its 340 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to LGA, every carrier and departure
- LGA to ATL, the return direction
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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.