Flight number record
DL 469
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to San Francisco
- Route
- DTW → SFO
- Departs
- 12:15
- Flights
- 301
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 469, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 469 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 301 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 469 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 95 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 298 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 301 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 109 of 301 flights, with 12:33 (36 flights) and 12:27 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 12:15109 flights36.2%
- Departs 12:3336 flights12.0%
- Departs 12:2735 flights11.6%
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 12:15 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 469 runs 11 points worse at 67.8%. 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 469 next to DTW to SFO
Every carrier on DTW to SFO combined arrived on time 66.4% of the time across 1,792 flights, so DL 469 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,385 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 65.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 469thin sample | 301 | 67.8% | 69 min | 1.00% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–SFO | 1,385 | 65.1% | 61 min | 0.72% | C+ |
| All carriers on DTW–SFO | 1,792 | 66.4% | 65 min | 0.67% | C+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 96.7% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 60.0%, a swing of 37 points on roughly 75 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights68.2%
- Jan–Mar 202628 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights60.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights71.0%
Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 469 did best on Tuesday at 81.0% on time and worst on Friday at 54.8%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 469 runs when it is late
The 96 late arrivals split 36 under half an hour, 31 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early43 flights14.4%
- Within 15 min159 flights53.4%
- 15–29 min late36 flights12.1%
- 30–59 min late31 flights10.4%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights6.7%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 298 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 66 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. In the other direction, 38 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at SFO.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 469
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 October 2025, 18 hours 45 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 October 2025 | 18 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 April 2026 | 6 hours 21 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 1 November 2025 | 6 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 August 2026 | 3 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 September 2025 | 3 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 469 runs late
Carrier accounts for 50% of the 6,581 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Carrier
- 43%National Airspace System
- 7%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
43% 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 2,823 minutes out of 6,581, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,581 delay minutes reported on DL 469.
Cancellations sit at 1.00% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.7% 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.
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 67.8% on time with 1.00% cancelled over 301 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- DTW to SFO, every carrier and departure
- SFO to DTW, the return direction
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- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) delay statistics
- San Francisco International (SFO) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
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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.