Flight number record

DL 1208

Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Minneapolis

Route: MCO → MSP
Departs: 15:00
Flights: 317
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1208, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1208 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 317 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

On time

74.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 316 completed flights

Avg delay

95 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.32%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 317 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.1% 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 1208 flies

DL 1208 flies MCO to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:00, used on 99 of 317 flights, with 14:44 (55 flights) and 14:03 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:0099 flights31.2%
Departs 14:4455 flights17.4%
Departs 14:0336 flights11.4%

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 15:00 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 1208 runs level with that at 74.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 1208 next to MCO to MSP

Every carrier on MCO to MSP combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 1,942 flights, so DL 1208 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 1,868 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 8 points.

DL 1208 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1208thin sample	317	74.1%	95 min	0.32%	C+
All Delta Air Lines on MCO–MSP	1,868	77.5%	93 min	1.18%	B
All carriers on MCO–MSP	1,942	77.6%	93 min	1.29%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1208 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1208 held fairly steady: 71.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 78.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 71.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 75.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights71.7%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights78.5%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights71.8%
Apr–Jun 202660 flights75.0%

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1208 did best on Monday at 84.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 56.8%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 28 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1208 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 7,775 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
44%
Carrier
38%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
4%

44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 7,775 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 7,775 delay minutes reported on DL 1208.

Cancellations are rare at 0.32%, 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.1% 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 1,310 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

DL 1208 is not only a MCO to MSP flight. It also flew MSP to MCO (256 flights, 78.7% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 317 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.

Other routes flown as DL 1208
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MSP to MCOthin sample	256	78.7%	66 min	0.39%	B+

What to do with this

Booking DL 1208

For a booking, read DL 1208 as 74.1% on time with 0.32% cancelled over 317 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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