Flight number record

DL 2082

Delta Air Lines · Memphis to Los Angeles

Route: MEM → LAX
Departs: 18:59
Flights: 254
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2082, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2082 lands a B, about a point 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 254 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

78.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 250 completed flights

Avg delay

85 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.18%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 254 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 2082 flies

DL 2082 flies MEM to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:59, used on 106 of 254 flights, with 18:50 (57 flights) and 18:40 (45 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:59106 flights41.7%
Departs 18:5057 flights22.4%
Departs 18:4045 flights17.7%

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 18:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2082 runs 11 points better at 78.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2082 next to MEM to LAX

Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

DL 2082 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2082thin sample	254	78.8%	85 min	1.18%	B
All Delta Air Lines on MEM–LAXthin sample	254	78.8%	85 min	1.18%	B
All carriers on MEM–LAXthin sample	254	78.8%	85 min	1.18%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2082 quarter by quarter

DL 2082 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 84.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 73.4%, a swing of 11 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 202563 flights84.1%
Oct–Dec 202565 flights81.2%
Jan–Mar 202662 flights76.3%
Apr–Jun 202664 flights73.4%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2082 ranged from 73.9% on Sunday to 82.4% on Monday. With about 36 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2082 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 64% of the 4,515 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
64%
Late-arriving aircraft
22%
National Airspace System
12%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, 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 2,881 of the 4,515 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,515 delay minutes reported on DL 2082.

Cancellations sit at 1.18% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.39%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.8% 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.

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 254 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. 254 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 78.8% on time with 1.18% cancelled over 254 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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