Flight number record

DL 1368

Delta Air Lines · New York to New Orleans

Route: JFK → MSY
Departs: 08:00
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1368, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1368 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1368's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 88 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights

Avg delay

88 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.87%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 1368 flies

DL 1368 flies JFK to MSY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 183 of 364 flights, with 08:05 (65 flights) and 08:10 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:00183 flights50.3%
Departs 08:0565 flights17.9%
Departs 08:1041 flights11.3%

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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 1368 runs 2 points better at 86.4%. 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 1368 next to JFK to MSY

Every carrier on JFK to MSY combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 1,142 flights, so DL 1368 is 5 points ahead of it. Delta flew 720 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 5 points.

DL 1368 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1368thin sample	364	86.4%	88 min	6.87%	A−
All Delta Air Lines on JFK–MSY	720	83.6%	73 min	5.00%	B−
All carriers on JFK–MSY	1,142	81.6%	73 min	4.47%	B−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1368 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1368 held fairly steady: 89.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 85.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights89.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights84.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.4%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights85.7%

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

By weekday, DL 1368 did best on Friday at 93.9% on time and worst on Thursday at 79.2%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1368 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 82% of the 4,055 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
82%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 82%, 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 3,319 of the 4,055 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,055 delay minutes reported on DL 1368.

Cancellations run at 6.87%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,182 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.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including MSY to JFK (234), but none flew often enough under DL 1368 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to JFK to MSY only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 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 1368

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1368: 6.87% of its 364 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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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