Flight number record
DL 1162
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Orlando
- Route
- ATL → MCO
- Departs
- 22:20
- Flights
- 336
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1162, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1162 draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 336 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 1162 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 329 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.08%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
11.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 336 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 1162 flies
DL 1162 flies ATL to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:20, used on 78 of 336 flights, with 22:35 (62 flights) and 22:30 (54 flights) next.
- Departs 22:2078 flights23.2%
- Departs 22:3562 flights18.5%
- Departs 22:3054 flights16.1%
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 22:20 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 1162 runs 2 points worse at 67.8%. 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 1162 next to ATL to MCO
Every carrier on ATL to MCO combined arrived on time 70.3% of the time across 8,267 flights, so DL 1162 is 3 points behind it. Delta flew 5,534 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.5% 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 1162thin sample | 336 | 67.8% | 58 min | 2.08% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MCO | 5,534 | 70.5% | 65 min | 1.32% | C |
| All carriers on ATL–MCO | 8,267 | 70.3% | 75 min | 1.58% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1162 quarter by quarter
DL 1162 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 54.2%, a swing of 21 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 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights66.3%
- Jan–Mar 202679 flights75.3%
- Apr–Jun 202686 flights69.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights54.2%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1162 did best on Tuesday at 84.4% on time and worst on Friday at 60.8%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1162 runs when it is late
The 106 late arrivals split 37 under half an hour, 32 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 37 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early27 flights8.2%
- Within 15 min196 flights59.6%
- 15–29 min late37 flights11.2%
- 30–59 min late32 flights9.7%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights8.8%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 329 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 111 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 1162
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 May 2026, 7 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2026 | 7 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 June 2026 | 3 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 October 2025 | 2 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 January 2026 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 September 2025 | 2 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1162 runs late
Carrier accounts for 66% of the 6,122 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 66%Carrier
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,014 of the 6,122 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,122 delay minutes reported on DL 1162.
Cancellations sit at 2.08% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
11.2% 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 same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including MCO to ATL (12), but none flew often enough under DL 1162 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to MCO 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 1162
For a booking, read DL 1162 as 67.8% on time with 2.08% cancelled over 336 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- ATL to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO 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.