Flight number record
DL 2204
Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Atlanta
- Route
- MCO → ATL
- Departs
- 10:00
- Flights
- 331
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2204, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2204 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 331 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2204's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 110 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 325 completed flights
Avg delay
120 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.51%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 331 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 2204 flies
DL 2204 flies MCO to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:00, used on 193 of 331 flights, with 10:05 (110 flights) next.
- Departs 10:00193 flights58.3%
- Departs 10:05110 flights33.2%
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 10:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2204 runs 4 points better at 88.3%. 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 2204 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 2204 is 13 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 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2204thin sample | 331 | 88.3% | 120 min | 1.51% | 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 2204 quarter by quarter
DL 2204 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 78.3%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 83 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 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202564 flights82.0%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights92.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights78.3%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2204 did best on Wednesday at 100.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 68.2%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 32 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2204 runs when it is late
DL 2204 often beats the schedule: 159 of 325 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When DL 2204 is late it tends to be very late: 22 of its 38 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 9 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early159 flights48.9%
- Within 15 min128 flights39.4%
- 15–29 min late6 flights1.8%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.1%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 325 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 36 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2204
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 September 2025, 12 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across September, January, December, August and October, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2025 | 12 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 January 2026 | 12 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 5 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 August 2026 | 4 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 October 2025 | 4 hours 35 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why DL 2204 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 4,555 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,555 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 4,555 delay minutes reported on DL 2204.
Cancellations sit at 1.51% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
DL 2204 is not only a MCO to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to MCO (312 flights, 88.1% 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. 331 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL to MCOthin sample | 312 | 88.1% | 54 min | 2.56% | A |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2204
For a booking, read DL 2204 as 88.3% on time with 1.51% cancelled over 331 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.