Flight number record
DL 2653
Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Las Vegas
- Route
- LAX → LAS
- Departs
- 21:30
- Flights
- 323
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2653, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2653 lands a B+, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 323 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
78.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 321 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.62%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 323 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 2653 flies
DL 2653 flies LAX to LAS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:30, used on 63 of 323 flights, with 21:55 (60 flights) next.
- Departs 21:3063 flights19.5%
- Departs 21:5560 flights18.6%
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 21:30 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2653 runs 8 points better at 78.2%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2653 next to LAX to LAS
Every carrier on LAX to LAS combined arrived on time 75.8% of the time across 8,202 flights, so DL 2653 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,731 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 81.1%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2653thin sample | 323 | 78.2% | 61 min | 0.62% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on LAX–LAS | 1,731 | 78.5% | 59 min | 0.81% | B+ |
| All carriers on LAX–LAS | 8,202 | 75.8% | 63 min | 0.77% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2653 quarter by quarter
DL 2653 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 83.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 69.2%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 65 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 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights82.0%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights83.3%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights69.2%
- Jul–Sep 202640 flights72.5%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2653 did best on Tuesday at 91.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2653 runs when it is late
DL 2653 often beats the schedule: 96 of 321 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 70 late arrivals split 32 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 22 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early96 flights29.9%
- Within 15 min155 flights48.3%
- 15–29 min late32 flights10.0%
- 30–59 min late16 flights5.0%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 321 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 67 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. In the other direction, 17 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 LAS.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2653
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 March 2026, 8 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across March, May, August and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2026 | 8 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 May 2026 | 4 hours 14 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 August 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 July 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 May 2026 | 2 hours 31 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2653 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 4,244 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 34%National Airspace System
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,694 of the 4,244 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,244 delay minutes reported on DL 2653.
Cancellations are rare at 0.62%, 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
6.9% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
Every one of the 323 flights under DL 2653 in the data flew LAX to LAS. 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. 323 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 2653
For a booking, read DL 2653 as 78.2% on time with 0.62% cancelled over 323 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- LAX to LAS, every carrier and departure
- LAS to LAX, the return direction
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- United Airlines 1006 on the same route91.2%
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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.