Flight number record
DL 1250
Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Minneapolis
- Route
- MCO → MSP
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 349
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1250, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1250 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1250's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 149 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights
Avg delay
101 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.29%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 349 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 1250 flies
DL 1250 flies MCO to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 57 of 349 flights, with 06:40 (43 flights) and 06:00 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 07:0057 flights16.3%
- Departs 06:4043 flights12.3%
- Departs 06:0036 flights10.3%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1250 runs 3 points better at 92.2%. 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 1250 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 1250 is 14 points ahead of 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 beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1250thin sample | 349 | 92.2% | 101 min | 0.29% | A+ |
| 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 1250 quarter by quarter
DL 1250 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 83.9%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 70 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 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights98.8%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights90.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.9%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1250 ranged from 90.0% on Wednesday to 96.0% on Thursday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1250 runs when it is late
DL 1250 often beats the schedule: 117 of 348 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 27 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early117 flights33.6%
- Within 15 min204 flights58.6%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late4 flights1.1%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 348 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
3 of 22 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1250
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 May 2026, 11 hours 8 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2026 | 11 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 May 2026 | 8 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 August 2026 | 6 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 August 2026 | 2 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 July 2026 | 2 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1250 runs late
Carrier accounts for 90% of the 2,739 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 90%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 90%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,474 of the 2,739 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,739 delay minutes reported on DL 1250.
Cancellations are rare at 0.29%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.4% 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.
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.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including LAS to MSP (2) and CHS to ATL (1), but none flew often enough under DL 1250 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MCO to MSP only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 349 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 1250
For a booking, DL 1250 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.2% on time and 0.29% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to MCO, the return direction
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- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
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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.