Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL1693
Atlanta (ATL) to Nashville (BNA) · scheduled 4:41 PM – 4:50 PM
How DL1693 performs
607 operations, June 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on ATL → BNA, DL1693 averaged about 5 operations a week (607 in 815 days, cancelled ones included).
DL1693 arrived on time 76.0% of the time, against 81.6% for all ATL → BNA flights, so this departure is 5.6 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 5.8 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 607 operations, June 2024 – August 2026 · If DL1693 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL1693 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1693 | 76.0% | 1.32% | -2 min | 6.4% | 607 |
| Delta Air Lines on ATL → BNA | 81.8% | 1.23% | -5 min | 5.5% | 10,033 |
| All ATL → BNA flights | 81.6% | 1.07% | -5 min | 5.7% | 12,572 |
DL1693 cancelled 8 of 607 operations (1.32%), close to the 1.07% for ATL → BNA.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
Why DL1693 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL1693 on ATL → BNA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL1693 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying DL1693 came in 15 or more minutes late on 12% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into ATL: 573 of 599 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| DL1693 | 12% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
67 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often DL1693’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves ATL late, does that still matter by the time it reaches BNA?
On arrival at BNA, DL1693 spends 10.2 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is 2.4 minutes longer than a typical BNA arrival (7.9 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 62,539 ATL departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 329,326 arrivals at BNA. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves ATL
DL1693 has one departure time, 4:41 PM, so this is what that hour at ATL is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 62,539 departures from ATL are scheduled in the 4 PM–5 PM hour over the period, against 1,039,468 across the whole day.
DL1693 is scheduled out of ATL at 4:41 PM, in the 4 PM–5 PM bank. Departures from ATL in that hour arrive on time 72.9% of the time against 78.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.8 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from ATL, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL1693 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. DL1693 also served these 14 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| BNA→ATL Nashville to Atlanta | June 7, 2024 – August 30, 2026 | 515 | 78.1% |
| MEM→ATL Memphis to Atlanta | February 14, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 4 | — |
| ATL→BOS Atlanta to Boston | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| DTW→RSW Detroit to Fort Myers | July 1, 2023 – May 6, 2024 | 124 | 80.6% |
| RSW→DTW Fort Myers to Detroit | July 1, 2023 – May 6, 2024 | 94 | 84.0% |
| SLC→SAN Salt Lake City to San Diego | January 8, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 62 | — |
| LGA→BOS New York to Boston | January 7, 2024 | 1 | — |
| DFW→SLC Dallas–Fort Worth to Salt Lake City | December 16, 2023 – January 1, 2024 | 13 | — |
| ATL→HSV Atlanta to Huntsville | November 5, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 38 | — |
| HSV→ATL Huntsville to Atlanta | November 6, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 18 | — |
| LEX→ATL Lexington to Atlanta | November 4, 2023 | 1 | — |
| ATL→DAY Atlanta to Dayton | October 29–30, 2023 | 2 | — |
| RDU→MSP Raleigh–Durham to Minneapolis | October 9–27, 2023 | 19 | — |
| DFW→LGA Dallas–Fort Worth to New York | September 5, 2023 – October 8, 2023 | 29 | — |
The figures above describe only ATL → BNA, the route DL1693 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
36 min late
against a median of 2 min early
Percentiles over 607 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL3069 | Delta Air Lines | 92.1% | 8 min early | 697 |
| DL1155 | Delta Air Lines | 86.9% | 7 min early | 673 |
| DL3121 | Delta Air Lines | 78.5% | 5 min early | 605 |
| DL1693 this flight | Delta Air Lines | 76.0% | 2 min early | 607 |
| DL1490 | Delta Air Lines | 75.2% | 4 min early | 921 |
Among all 5 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, DL1693 has the 4th highest on-time rate, 16.1 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 607 records of DL1693 operating ATL → BNA, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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