Flight number record
DL 1213
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Orlando
- Route
- ATL → MCO
- Departs
- 08:15
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1213, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1213 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 40 minutes. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1213's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 96 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
42 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.64%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When DL 1213 flies
DL 1213 flies ATL to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:15, used on 168 of 365 flights, with 08:25 (160 flights) next.
- Departs 08:15168 flights46.0%
- Departs 08:25160 flights43.8%
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 08:15 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 1213 runs 3 points better at 86.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 1213 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 1213 is 17 points ahead of 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 beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1213 | 365 | 86.9% | 42 min | 1.64% | A |
| 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 1213 quarter by quarter
DL 1213 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.3%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 73 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.5%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1213 did best on Tuesday at 94.1% on time and worst on Thursday at 80.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1213 runs when it is late
The 47 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early36 flights10.0%
- Within 15 min276 flights76.9%
- 15–29 min late20 flights5.6%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.0%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 41 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1213
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 April 2026, 2 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2026 | 2 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 July 2026 | 2 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 14 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 22 June 2026 | 1 hour 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 September 2025 | 1 hour 30 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1213 runs late
Carrier accounts for 65% of the 1,964 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 65%Carrier
- 29%National Airspace System
- 3%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,269 of the 1,964 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,964 delay minutes reported on DL 1213.
Cancellations sit at 1.64% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
DL 1213 is not only a ATL to MCO flight. It also flew MCO to ATL (365 flights, 83.1% 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. 365 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCO to ATL | 365 | 83.1% | 70 min | 1.10% | B |
What to do with this
Booking DL 1213
For a booking, read DL 1213 as 86.9% on time with 1.64% cancelled over 365 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.