Flight number record

DL 460

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to New York

Route: ATL → LGA
Departs: 13:30
Flights: 334
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 460, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 460 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 334 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

On time

75.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 324 completed flights

Avg delay

61 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.10%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 334 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 315 of the 334 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.

Departs 13:30315 flights94.3%

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 13:30 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 460 runs 3 points worse at 75.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 460 next to ATL to LGA

Every carrier on ATL to LGA combined arrived on time 73.4% of the time across 8,344 flights, so DL 460 is 3 points ahead of it. Delta flew 4,936 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.7% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

DL 460 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 460thin sample	334	75.9%	61 min	2.10%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–LGA	4,936	76.7%	66 min	2.96%	B
All carriers on ATL–LGA	8,344	73.4%	75 min	3.61%	C−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 460 quarter by quarter

DL 460 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 83.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.1%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 84 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 202586 flights83.5%
Oct–Dec 202581 flights67.1%
Jan–Mar 202678 flights79.7%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights73.3%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 460 did best on Tuesday at 83.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 65.2%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 460 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 55% of the 4,789 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.

National Airspace System
55%
Carrier
32%
Late-arriving aircraft
8%
Extreme weather
6%

55% 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 2,611 minutes out of 4,789, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,789 delay minutes reported on DL 460.

Cancellations sit at 2.10% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.90%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including DTW to TVC (5), TVC to DTW (5) and 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. 334 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, read DL 460 as 75.9% on time with 2.10% cancelled over 334 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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