Flight number record

DL 1463

Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Atlanta

Route: MCO → ATL
Departs: 08:00
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1463, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1463 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 13 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 361 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1463's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 127 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

90.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights

Avg delay

92 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.28%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 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 1463 flies

DL 1463 is scheduled to leave Orlando (MCO) at 08:00 local time and reach Atlanta (ATL) at 09:42. That slot held for 323 of the 361 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.

Departs 08:00323 flights89.5%

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 1463 runs 6 points better at 90.3%. 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 1463 next to MCO to ATL

Every carrier on MCO to ATL combined arrived on time 75.6% of the time across 8,207 flights, so DL 1463 is 15 points ahead of it. Delta flew 5,463 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 9 points.

DL 1463 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1463thin sample	361	90.3%	92 min	0.28%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on MCO–ATL	5,463	79.1%	88 min	1.24%	B
All carriers on MCO–ATL	8,207	75.6%	79 min	1.40%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1463 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1463 held fairly steady: 92.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 92.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights92.3%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights90.0%
Jan–Mar 202688 flights86.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1463 did best on Sunday at 96.2% on time and worst on Tuesday at 83.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1463 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 3,214 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
47%
National Airspace System
39%
Late-arriving aircraft
14%

39% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,265 minutes out of 3,214, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,214 delay minutes reported on DL 1463.

Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, 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 3.6% 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.

Every one of the 361 flights under DL 1463 in the data flew MCO to ATL. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 361 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 1463

For a booking, DL 1463 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.3% on time and 0.28% 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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