Flight number record
DL 1576
Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Atlanta
- Route
- MCO → ATL
- Departs
- 15:15
- Flights
- 271
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1576, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1576 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 1576 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 44 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 269 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.74%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 271 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 1576 flies
DL 1576 flies MCO to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:15, used on 108 of 271 flights, with 15:31 (40 flights) and 15:10 (33 flights) next.
- Departs 15:15108 flights39.9%
- Departs 15:3140 flights14.8%
- Departs 15:1033 flights12.2%
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 15:15 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 1576 runs level with that at 72.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 1576 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 1576 is 2 points behind 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 trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1576thin sample | 271 | 72.9% | 103 min | 0.74% | C+ |
| 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 1576 quarter by quarter
DL 1576 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 77.6% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 65.6%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 90 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 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights72.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights65.6%
- Apr–Jun 202667 flights77.6%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1576 did best on Thursday at 87.2% on time and worst on Friday at 60.0%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1576 runs when it is late
When DL 1576 is late it tends to be very late: 39 of its 73 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 19 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early62 flights23.0%
- Within 15 min134 flights49.8%
- 15–29 min late14 flights5.2%
- 30–59 min late20 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights7.4%
- 2+ hours late19 flights7.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 269 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 73 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1576
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 March 2026, 8 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across March, February, May and December, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 March 2026 | 8 hours 3 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 February 2026 | 7 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 May 2026 | 7 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 March 2026 | 5 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 December 2025 | 5 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1576 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 7,500 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,500 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 7,500 delay minutes reported on DL 1576.
Cancellations are rare at 0.74%, 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
14.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
DL 1576 is not only a MCO to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to MCO (271 flights, 76.3% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 271 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL to MCOthin sample | 271 | 76.3% | 77 min | 0.37% | B+ |
What to do with this
Booking DL 1576
For a booking, DL 1576 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 14.5% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
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.