Flight number record

DL 1213

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Orlando

Route: ATL → MCO
Departs: 08:15
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1213's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights

Avg delay

47 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.82%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 3 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.

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 189 of 365 flights, with 08:25 (138 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:15189 flights51.8%
Departs 08:25138 flights37.8%

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 08:15 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 1213 runs level with that at 85.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 1213 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 1213 is 15 points ahead of 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 beats by 4 points.

DL 1213 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1213	365	85.9%	47 min	0.82%	A+
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 1213 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1213 held fairly steady: 88.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 87.9% 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 flights88.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1213 ranged from 82.7% on Friday to 90.4% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 1213 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 66% of the 2,379 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
66%
National Airspace System
28%
Late-arriving aircraft
3%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, 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 1,573 of the 2,379 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,379 delay minutes reported on DL 1213.

Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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, 82.7% 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. 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.

Other routes flown as DL 1213
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MCO to ATL	365	82.7%	76 min	0.27%	B+

What to do with this

Booking DL 1213

For a booking, DL 1213 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.9% on time and 0.82% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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