Flight number record
DL 1463
Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Atlanta
- Route
- MCO → ATL
- Departs
- 08:00
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1463's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 113 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 1463 flies
DL 1463 flies MCO to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 263 of 361 flights, with 08:05 (94 flights) next.
- Departs 08:00263 flights72.9%
- Departs 08:0594 flights26.0%
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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 1463 runs 5 points better at 88.6%. 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 1463 next to MCO to ATL
Every carrier on MCO to ATL combined arrived on time 74.9% of the time across 8,259 flights, so DL 1463 is 14 points ahead of it. Delta flew 5,531 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1463thin sample | 361 | 88.6% | 85 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MCO–ATL | 5,531 | 78.3% | 88 min | 1.39% | B |
| All carriers on MCO–ATL | 8,259 | 74.9% | 80 min | 1.65% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1463 quarter by quarter
DL 1463 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 80.6%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 72 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights90.0%
- Jan–Mar 202688 flights86.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.6%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1463 did best on Thursday at 98.0% on time and worst on Wednesday at 82.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1463 runs when it is late
DL 1463 often beats the schedule: 198 of 361 completed flights, 55%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 41 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early198 flights54.8%
- Within 15 min122 flights33.8%
- 15–29 min late13 flights3.6%
- 30–59 min late13 flights3.6%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 37 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1463
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 February 2026, 5 hours 35 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 February 2026 | 5 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 July 2026 | 4 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 August 2026 | 4 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 September 2025 | 4 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 16 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 1463 runs late
Carrier accounts for 50% of the 3,501 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Carrier
- 37%National Airspace System
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
37% 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 1,306 minutes out of 3,501, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,501 delay minutes reported on DL 1463.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 4.2% 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.
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: 88.6% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to MCO, 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.