Flight number record
DL 1494
Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Atlanta
- Route
- MCO → ATL
- Departs
- 06:15
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1494, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1494 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1494's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 169 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 1494 flies
DL 1494 flies MCO to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:15, used on 249 of 364 flights, with 05:30 (66 flights) and 06:00 (39 flights) next.
- Departs 06:15249 flights68.4%
- Departs 05:3066 flights18.1%
- Departs 06:0039 flights10.7%
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 06:15 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1494 runs 5 points better at 94.2%. 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 1494 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 1494 is 19 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 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1494thin sample | 364 | 94.2% | 76 min | 0.82% | 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 1494 quarter by quarter
DL 1494 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 88.8%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 73 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 202591 flights96.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.5%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1494 ranged from 90.4% on Saturday to 98.1% on Wednesday. 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1494 runs when it is late
DL 1494 often beats the schedule: 177 of 361 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 21 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early177 flights49.0%
- Within 15 min163 flights45.2%
- 15–29 min late7 flights1.9%
- 30–59 min late4 flights1.1%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights1.9%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 20 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1494
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 April 2026, 6 hours 24 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2026 | 6 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 January 2026 | 3 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 January 2026 | 2 hours 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 29 August 2026 | 1 hour 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 July 2026 | 1 hour 33 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1494 runs late
Carrier accounts for 77% of the 1,599 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 77%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 77%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,230 of the 1,599 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,599 delay minutes reported on DL 1494.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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 2.8% 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 364 flights under DL 1494 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. 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 1494
For a booking, DL 1494 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 94.2% on time and 0.82% 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.