Flight number record

DL 2253

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Las Vegas

Route: LAX → LAS
Departs: 07:35
Flights: 348
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2253, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2253 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 18 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2253's record is 18 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 177 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

95.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.15%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 348 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 2253 flies

DL 2253 flies LAX to LAS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:35, used on 112 of 348 flights, with 07:30 (66 flights) and 07:00 (62 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:35112 flights32.2%
Departs 07:3066 flights19.0%
Departs 07:0062 flights17.8%

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 07:35 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2253 runs 6 points better at 95.3%. 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 2253 next to LAX to LAS

Every carrier on LAX to LAS combined arrived on time 76.5% of the time across 8,319 flights, so DL 2253 is 19 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,735 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 14 points.

DL 2253 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2253thin sample	348	95.3%	53 min	1.15%	A
All Delta Air Lines on LAX–LAS	1,735	78.5%	59 min	0.81%	B+
All carriers on LAX–LAS	8,319	76.5%	64 min	0.77%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2253 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2253 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 95.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 95.6% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights96.7%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights95.0%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights93.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2253 ranged from 91.3% on Saturday to 100.0% on Friday. With about 50 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 2253 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 84% of the 850 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
84%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 84%, 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 718 of the 850 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 850 delay minutes reported on DL 2253.

Cancellations sit at 1.15% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including LAS to LAX (117), but none flew often enough under DL 2253 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to LAS only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 348 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 2253

For a booking, DL 2253 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 95.3% on time and 1.15% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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