Flight number record

DL 2049

Delta Air Lines · Orlando to New York

Route: MCO → JFK
Departs: 11:05
Flights: 349
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

On time

81.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 333 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.30%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

6.0%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 349 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 2049 flies

DL 2049 flies MCO to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:05, used on 110 of 349 flights, with 11:10 (55 flights) next.

Departs 11:05110 flights31.5%
Departs 11:1055 flights15.8%

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 11:05 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2049 runs 3 points better at 81.1%. 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 2049 next to MCO to JFK

Every carrier on MCO to JFK combined arrived on time 74.9% of the time across 4,813 flights, so DL 2049 is 6 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,981 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, 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	81.1%	81 min	4.30%	B−
All Delta Air Lines on MCO–JFK	1,981	77.9%	83 min	3.23%	B−
All carriers on MCO–JFK	4,813	74.9%	84 min	3.74%	C−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2049 quarter by quarter

DL 2049 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 72.9%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 70 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 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights80.8%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights80.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.1%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights72.9%

Scale runs 65% to 100%.

By weekday, DL 2049 did best on Wednesday at 92.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 71.4%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2049 runs when it is late

DL 2049 often beats the schedule: 102 of 333 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 63 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.

15+ min early102 flights30.6%
Within 15 min168 flights50.5%
15–29 min late22 flights6.6%
30–59 min late21 flights6.3%
1–2 hours late7 flights2.1%
2+ hours late13 flights3.9%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 333 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

18 of 61 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 30% of them. In the other direction, 20 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at JFK.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2049

The latest arrival of the period was on 31 May 2026, 13 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.

The latest arrivals of DL 2049 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
31 May 2026	13 hours 12 minutes	Carrier
2 May 2026	5 hours 1 minute	Late-arriving aircraft
21 August 2026	4 hours 10 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
18 August 2026	3 hours 42 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
28 August 2026	3 hours 35 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why DL 2049 runs late

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 5,117 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
44%
Carrier
31%
National Airspace System
24%
Extreme weather
0%

44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,117 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 to one. The split is drawn from 5,117 delay minutes reported on DL 2049.

Cancellations run at 4.30%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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

6.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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.

DL 2049 is not only a MCO to JFK flight. It also flew JFK to MCO (255 flights, 84.2% 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. 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2049
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
JFK to MCOthin sample	255	84.2%	69 min	5.49%	B−

What to do with this

Booking DL 2049

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2049: 4.30% 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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