Flight number record
DL 2085
Delta Air Lines · New Orleans to Los Angeles
- Route
- MSY → LAX
- Departs
- 06:30
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2085, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2085 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2085's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 152 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 2085 flies
DL 2085 flies MSY to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:30, used on 74 of 364 flights, with 06:15 (62 flights) and 08:03 (57 flights) next.
- Departs 06:3074 flights20.3%
- Departs 06:1562 flights17.0%
- Departs 08:0357 flights15.7%
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 06:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2085 runs 3 points better at 92.5%. 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 2085 next to MSY to LAX
Every carrier on MSY to LAX combined arrived on time 78.3% of the time across 1,428 flights, so DL 2085 is 14 points ahead of it. Delta flew 949 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2085thin sample | 364 | 92.5% | 75 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSY–LAX | 949 | 83.0% | 80 min | 0.53% | B+ |
| All carriers on MSY–LAX | 1,428 | 78.3% | 72 min | 0.49% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2085 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2085 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 91.1% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 91.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights92.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights93.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.9%
Scale runs 85% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2085 ranged from 88.5% on Sunday to 96.2% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2085 runs when it is late
DL 2085 often beats the schedule: 185 of 361 completed flights, 51%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 27 late arrivals split 9 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early185 flights51.2%
- Within 15 min149 flights41.3%
- 15–29 min late9 flights2.5%
- 30–59 min late7 flights1.9%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 25 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. Only 7 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2085
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 February 2026, 7 hours 22 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 14 February 2026 | 7 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 March 2026 | 3 hours 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 November 2025 | 2 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 September 2025 | 2 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 August 2026 | 2 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2085 runs late
Carrier accounts for 73% of the 2,011 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 73%Carrier
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 73%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,471 of the 2,011 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,011 delay minutes reported on DL 2085.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.0% 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.
At 1,671 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 364 flights under DL 2085 in the data flew MSY 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. 364 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 2085
For a booking, DL 2085 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.5% on time and 0.82% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- MSY to LAX, every carrier and departure
- LAX to MSY, the return direction
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (MSY) delay statistics
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.