Flight number record

DL 693

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to San Francisco

Route: ATL → SFO
Departs: 08:25
Flights: 275
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 693, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 693 lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 275 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

On time

80.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 273 completed flights

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.36%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 275 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 693 flies

DL 693 flies ATL to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:25, used on 66 of 275 flights, with 08:20 (40 flights) and 07:55 (34 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:2566 flights24.0%
Departs 08:2040 flights14.5%
Departs 07:5534 flights12.4%

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 08:25 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 693 runs 4 points worse at 80.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 693 next to ATL to SFO

Every carrier on ATL to SFO combined arrived on time 71.4% of the time across 3,354 flights, so DL 693 is 9 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,410 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 693 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 693thin sample	275	80.2%	49 min	0.36%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–SFO	2,410	70.2%	55 min	0.62%	C+
All carriers on ATL–SFO	3,354	71.4%	58 min	0.63%	C+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 693 quarter by quarter

DL 693 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 88.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 72.7%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 92 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 flights88.0%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights72.7%
Jan–Mar 202627 flights—
Apr–Jun 202667 flights80.3%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 693 did best on Wednesday at 89.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 693 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 52% of the 2,665 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
52%
National Airspace System
37%
Late-arriving aircraft
9%
Extreme weather
2%

37% 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 977 minutes out of 2,665, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,665 delay minutes reported on DL 693.

Cancellations are rare at 0.36%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.1% 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 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 2,139 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 three other city pairs in the data, including SFO to ATL (152), DTW to ROC (61) and ATL to CMH (24), but none flew often enough under DL 693 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to SFO only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 275 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 693

For a booking, read DL 693 as 80.2% on time with 0.36% cancelled over 275 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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