Flight number record
DL 2082
Delta Air Lines · Memphis to Los Angeles
- Route
- MEM → LAX
- Departs
- 18:59
- Flights
- 256
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2082, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2082 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 256 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 252 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.17%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 256 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2082 flies
DL 2082 flies MEM to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:59, used on 102 of 256 flights, with 18:40 (45 flights) next.
- Departs 18:59102 flights39.8%
- Departs 18:4045 flights17.6%
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 18:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2082 runs 9 points better at 76.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2082 next to MEM to LAX
Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2082thin sample | 256 | 76.6% | 81 min | 1.17% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MEM–LAXthin sample | 256 | 76.6% | 81 min | 1.17% | B |
| All carriers on MEM–LAXthin sample | 256 | 76.6% | 81 min | 1.17% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2082 quarter by quarter
DL 2082 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 68.2%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 64 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 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202565 flights81.2%
- Jan–Mar 202662 flights76.3%
- Apr–Jun 202664 flights73.4%
- Jul–Sep 202644 flights68.2%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2082 did best on Thursday at 81.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 63.8%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2082 runs when it is late
DL 2082 often beats the schedule: 72 of 252 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 59 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early72 flights28.6%
- Within 15 min121 flights48.0%
- 15–29 min late26 flights10.3%
- 30–59 min late12 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights5.2%
- 2+ hours late8 flights3.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 252 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 49 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% 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 LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2082
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 April 2026, 12 hours 29 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 April 2026 | 12 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 January 2026 | 12 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 July 2026 | 5 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 August 2026 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 August 2026 | 3 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2082 runs late
Carrier accounts for 59% of the 4,773 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,821 of the 4,773 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,773 delay minutes reported on DL 2082.
Cancellations sit at 1.17% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.39%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.3% 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.
At 1,619 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
Every one of the 256 flights under DL 2082 in the data flew MEM to LAX. 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. 256 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 2082
For a booking, read DL 2082 as 76.6% on time with 1.17% cancelled over 256 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- Memphis International (MEM) delay statistics
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
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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.