Flight number record
DL 468
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to New York
- Route
- ATL → LGA
- Departs
- 19:30
- Flights
- 336
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 468, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 468 draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 336 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 468 runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 120 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.57%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
17.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 336 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 17.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 468 flies
DL 468 flies ATL to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:30, used on 107 of 336 flights, with 19:00 (86 flights) and 18:30 (86 flights) next.
- Departs 19:30107 flights31.8%
- Departs 19:0086 flights25.6%
- Departs 18:3086 flights25.6%
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 19:30 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 468 runs 3 points worse at 65.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 468 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 468 is 7 points behind 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 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 468thin sample | 336 | 65.3% | 75 min | 3.57% | C− |
| 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 468 quarter by quarter
DL 468 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 71.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 49.1%, a swing of 22 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 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights56.8%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights70.9%
- Apr–Jun 202686 flights71.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights49.1%
Scale runs 40% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 468 ranged from 57.8% on Sunday to 67.3% on Wednesday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 468 runs when it is late
When DL 468 is late it tends to be very late: 57 of its 111 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 22 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early53 flights16.6%
- Within 15 min156 flights48.8%
- 15–29 min late24 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late30 flights9.4%
- 1–2 hours late35 flights10.9%
- 2+ hours late22 flights6.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 320 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 117 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 468
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 September 2025, 4 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2025 | 4 hours 4 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 25 May 2026 | 3 hours 47 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 March 2026 | 3 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 February 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 June 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 468 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 56% of the 8,327 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%National Airspace System
- 25%Carrier
- 16%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
56% 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 4,686 minutes out of 8,327, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 8,327 delay minutes reported on DL 468.
Cancellations run at 3.57%, 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
17.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 two other city pairs in the data, including LAS to SLC (5) and PSP to JFK (1), but none flew often enough under DL 468 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. 336 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 468
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 468: 3.57% of its 336 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over 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.