Flight number record
DL 2259
Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Austin
- Route
- MCO → AUS
- Departs
- 12:24
- Flights
- 255
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2259, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2259 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 255 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2259's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 55 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 250 completed flights
Avg delay
91 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.18%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 255 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 2259 flies
DL 2259 flies MCO to AUS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:24, used on 93 of 255 flights, with 12:29 (40 flights) and 12:26 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 12:2493 flights36.5%
- Departs 12:2940 flights15.7%
- Departs 12:2631 flights12.2%
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 12:24 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2259 runs 5 points better at 82.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2259 next to MCO to AUS
Every carrier on MCO to AUS combined arrived on time 76.9% of the time across 2,848 flights, so DL 2259 is 6 points ahead of it. Delta flew 598 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2259thin sample | 255 | 82.8% | 91 min | 1.18% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MCO–AUS | 598 | 78.4% | 116 min | 1.34% | B |
| All carriers on MCO–AUS | 2,848 | 76.9% | 72 min | 1.16% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2259 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2259 held fairly steady: 86.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 81.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 83.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.9%
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2259 did best on Thursday at 91.7% on time and worst on Monday at 72.2%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2259 runs when it is late
DL 2259 often beats the schedule: 127 of 250 completed flights, 51%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 43 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early127 flights50.8%
- Within 15 min80 flights32.0%
- 15–29 min late13 flights5.2%
- 30–59 min late11 flights4.4%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 250 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 39 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 13 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at AUS.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2259
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 March 2026, 6 hours 43 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2026 | 6 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 July 2026 | 5 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 December 2025 | 5 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 January 2026 | 5 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 38 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2259 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 3,925 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%National Airspace System
- 19%Carrier
- 6%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,925 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 3,925 delay minutes reported on DL 2259.
Cancellations sit at 1.18% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.78%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.6% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 994 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including AUS to MCO (239) and SEA to GEG (49), but none flew often enough under DL 2259 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MCO to AUS only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 255 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 2259
For a booking, read DL 2259 as 82.8% on time with 1.18% cancelled over 255 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to AUS, every carrier and departure
- AUS to MCO, the return direction
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.