Flight number record
DL 2080
Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Atlanta
- Route
- MCO → ATL
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2080, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2080 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2080's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 123 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.39%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 2080 flies
DL 2080 is scheduled to leave Orlando (MCO) at 07:00 local time and reach Atlanta (ATL) at 08:44. That slot held for 328 of the 361 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 07:00328 flights90.9%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2080 runs level with that at 89.6%. 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 2080 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 2080 is 15 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 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2080thin sample | 361 | 89.6% | 57 min | 1.39% | 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 2080 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2080 held fairly steady: 91.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 86.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 93.4% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202527 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights91.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.4%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2080 did best on Wednesday at 98.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 80.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2080 runs when it is late
DL 2080 often beats the schedule: 150 of 356 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 37 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early150 flights42.1%
- Within 15 min169 flights47.5%
- 15–29 min late17 flights4.8%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.8%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 356 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
3 of 22 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 18 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 ATL.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2080
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 January 2026, 3 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 January 2026 | 3 hours 30 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 13 December 2025 | 3 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 May 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 March 2026 | 2 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 November 2025 | 2 hours 10 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2080 runs late
Carrier accounts for 56% of the 2,089 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Carrier
- 42%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,179 of the 2,089 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,089 delay minutes reported on DL 2080.
Cancellations sit at 1.39% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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 361 flights under DL 2080 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. 361 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 2080
For a booking, DL 2080 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.6% on time and 1.39% 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
- Delta Air Lines 1658 on the same route79.9%
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- Delta Air Lines 1150 on the same route58.0%
- Delta Air Lines 1463 on the same route88.6%
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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.