Flight number record

DL 1658

Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Atlanta

Route: MCO → ATL
Departs: 12:00
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1658, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1658 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

On time

81.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights

Avg delay

83 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 1658 flies

DL 1658 flies MCO to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:00, used on 143 of 365 flights, with 12:05 (74 flights) and 12:15 (74 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:00143 flights39.2%
Departs 12:0574 flights20.3%
Departs 12:1574 flights20.3%

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 12:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 1658 runs 3 points better at 81.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 1658 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 1658 is 6 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%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 1658 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1658	365	81.3%	83 min	0.27%	B+
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 1658 quarter by quarter

DL 1658 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 89.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 74.7%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights74.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights79.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.0%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1658 did best on Wednesday at 90.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 74.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1658 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 5,647 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
45%
Carrier
36%
National Airspace System
19%

45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 5,647 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 45 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 5,647 delay minutes reported on DL 1658.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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

6.3% 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.

DL 1658 is not only a MCO to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to MCO (365 flights, 83.1% 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. 365 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.

Other routes flown as DL 1658
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ATL to MCO	365	83.1%	58 min	0.82%	B+

What to do with this

Booking DL 1658

For a booking, read DL 1658 as 81.3% on time with 0.27% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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