Flight number record

DL 1162

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Orlando

Route: ATL → MCO
Departs: 22:20
Flights: 322
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1162, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1162 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 10 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 322 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 1162 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 96 extra late arrivals.

On time

68.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 316 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.86%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 322 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.4% 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 1162 flies

DL 1162 flies ATL to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:20, used on 76 of 322 flights, with 22:35 (62 flights) and 22:30 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:2076 flights23.6%
Departs 22:3562 flights19.3%
Departs 22:3049 flights15.2%

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 22:20 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 1162 runs 3 points worse at 68.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 1162 next to ATL to MCO

Every carrier on ATL to MCO combined arrived on time 70.7% of the time across 8,211 flights, so DL 1162 is 3 points behind it. Delta flew 5,465 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.7% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 14 points.

DL 1162 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1162thin sample	322	68.0%	60 min	1.86%	C
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–MCO	5,465	70.7%	64 min	1.17%	C
All carriers on ATL–MCO	8,211	70.7%	73 min	1.36%	C
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 2025 at 59.7%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 81 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 202569 flights59.7%
Oct–Dec 202588 flights66.3%
Jan–Mar 202679 flights75.3%
Apr–Jun 202686 flights69.8%

Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1162 did best on Tuesday at 82.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 60.4%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1162 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 59% of the 6,031 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
59%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
National Airspace System
12%
Extreme weather
7%

The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,558 of the 6,031 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,031 delay minutes reported on DL 1162.

Cancellations sit at 1.86% 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. 11.4% 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.

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. 322 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 68.0% on time with 1.86% cancelled over 322 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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