Flight number record

DL 469

Delta Air Lines · Detroit to San Francisco

Route: DTW → SFO
Departs: 12:15
Flights: 301
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 469, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 469 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 301 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 469 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 61 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 298 completed flights

Avg delay

72 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 301 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 469 flies

DL 469 flies DTW to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:15, used on 76 of 301 flights, with 12:27 (56 flights) and 12:31 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:1576 flights25.2%
Departs 12:2756 flights18.6%
Departs 12:3141 flights13.6%

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 12:15 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 469 runs 7 points worse at 71.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 469 next to DTW to SFO

Every carrier on DTW to SFO combined arrived on time 67.7% of the time across 1,799 flights, so DL 469 is 4 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,388 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 66.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 10 points.

DL 469 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 469thin sample	301	71.5%	72 min	1.00%	C
All Delta Air Lines on DTW–SFO	1,388	66.5%	63 min	0.79%	C+
All carriers on DTW–SFO	1,799	67.7%	66 min	0.89%	C+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 469 quarter by quarter

DL 469 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 91.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 60.0%, a swing of 31 points on roughly 100 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 202592 flights91.3%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights68.2%
Jan–Mar 202628 flights—
Apr–Jun 202691 flights60.0%

Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 469 did best on Tuesday at 81.4% on time and worst on Friday at 59.5%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 469 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 49% of the 6,111 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.

Carrier
49%
National Airspace System
41%
Late-arriving aircraft
9%
Extreme weather
1%

41% 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 2,487 minutes out of 6,111, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,111 delay minutes reported on DL 469.

Cancellations sit at 1.00% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 2,079 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including SAN to SEA (5), but none flew often enough under DL 469 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DTW to SFO only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 301 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 469

For a booking, read DL 469 as 71.5% on time with 1.00% cancelled over 301 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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