Flight number record

DL 2049

Delta Air Lines · Orlando to New York

Route: MCO → JFK
Departs: 11:00
Flights: 349
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2049, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2049 lands a B−, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

81.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 336 completed flights

Avg delay

78 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.44%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 349 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 2049 flies

DL 2049 flies MCO to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 72 of 349 flights, with 11:10 (55 flights) and 11:05 (48 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:0072 flights20.6%
Departs 11:1055 flights15.8%
Departs 11:0548 flights13.8%

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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2049 runs 3 points better at 81.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2049 next to MCO to JFK

Every carrier on MCO to JFK combined arrived on time 74.1% of the time across 4,899 flights, so DL 2049 is 7 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,980 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 2049 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2049thin sample	349	81.5%	78 min	3.44%	B−
All Delta Air Lines on MCO–JFK	1,980	78.1%	84 min	2.93%	B
All carriers on MCO–JFK	4,899	74.1%	83 min	2.92%	C
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2049 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2049 held fairly steady: 81.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 80.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 83.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights81.5%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights80.8%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights80.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.1%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2049 did best on Wednesday at 92.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 69.8%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2049 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 4,861 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%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
National Airspace System
22%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,289 of the 4,861 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,861 delay minutes reported on DL 2049.

Cancellations run at 3.44%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.4% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 944 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including JFK to MCO (193), but none flew often enough under DL 2049 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MCO to JFK only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 349 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 2049

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2049: 3.44% of its 349 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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.

Key figures