Flight number record

DL 2204

Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Atlanta

Route: MCO → ATL
Departs: 10:00
Flights: 331
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.1 hours. That rests on 331 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2204's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 107 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 326 completed flights

Avg delay

128 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.51%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 331 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 2204 flies

DL 2204 flies MCO to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:00, used on 246 of 331 flights, with 10:05 (51 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 10:00246 flights74.3%
Departs 10:0551 flights15.4%

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 10:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, 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.

Against the route

DL 2204 next to MCO to ATL

Every carrier on MCO to ATL combined arrived on time 75.6% of the time across 8,207 flights, so DL 2204 is 13 points ahead of it. Delta flew 5,463 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

DL 2204 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2204thin sample	331	88.3%	128 min	1.51%	A
All Delta Air Lines on MCO–ATL	5,463	79.1%	88 min	1.24%	B
All carriers on MCO–ATL	8,207	75.6%	79 min	1.40%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 Oct–Dec 2025 at 82.0%, a swing of 12 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 202587 flights82.8%
Oct–Dec 202564 flights82.0%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights92.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2204 did best on Wednesday at 98.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 73.3%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2204 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 54% of the 4,856 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
54%
Late-arriving aircraft
24%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
7%

The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, 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 2,632 of the 4,856 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,856 delay minutes reported on DL 2204.

Cancellations sit at 1.51% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.1% 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 about 2.1 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

DL 2204 is not only a MCO to ATL flight. It also flew ATL to MCO (301 flights, 89.1% 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2204
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
ATL to MCOthin sample	301	89.1%	51 min	2.33%	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.

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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