Flight number record
DL 1208
Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Minneapolis
- Route
- MCO → MSP
- Departs
- 15:00
- Flights
- 317
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 317 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 1208 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 46 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 315 completed flights
Avg delay
95 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.63%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
11.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 317 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 97 of 317 flights, with 14:03 (36 flights) and 14:44 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 15:0097 flights30.6%
- Departs 14:0336 flights11.4%
- Departs 14:4434 flights10.7%
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 15:00 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 1208 runs level with that at 72.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 1208 next to MCO to MSP
Every carrier on MCO to MSP combined arrived on time 77.9% of the time across 1,943 flights, so DL 1208 is 5 points behind it. Delta flew 1,861 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1208thin sample | 317 | 72.7% | 95 min | 0.63% | C+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MCO–MSP | 1,861 | 77.9% | 91 min | 1.29% | B |
| All carriers on MCO–MSP | 1,943 | 77.9% | 92 min | 1.39% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1208 quarter by quarter
DL 1208 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 86.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 57.4%, a swing of 29 points on roughly 63 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 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights78.5%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights71.8%
- Apr–Jun 202660 flights75.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights57.4%
Scale runs 50% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 1208 did best on Wednesday at 80.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 63.6%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1208 runs when it is late
The 86 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 36 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early59 flights18.7%
- Within 15 min170 flights54.0%
- 15–29 min late25 flights7.9%
- 30–59 min late25 flights7.9%
- 1–2 hours late18 flights5.7%
- 2+ hours late18 flights5.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 315 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 74 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. In the other direction, 21 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MSP.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1208
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 September 2025, 17 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2025 | 17 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 February 2026 | 7 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 April 2026 | 6 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 August 2026 | 5 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 February 2026 | 5 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1208 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 8,179 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,179 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 8,179 delay minutes reported on DL 1208.
Cancellations are rare at 0.63%, below the national 1.89% 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
11.4% 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 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.
DL 1208 is not only a MCO to MSP flight. It also flew MSP to MCO (256 flights, 78.0% 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSP to MCOthin sample | 256 | 78.0% | 67 min | 0.78% | B+ |
What to do with this
Booking DL 1208
For a booking, DL 1208 is one of the weaker ways to fly MCO to MSP: 5 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
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Where to go next
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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.