Flight number record

DL 2653

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Las Vegas

Route: LAX → LAS
Departs: 21:55
Flights: 345
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2653, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2653 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 55 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 345 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

77.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights

Avg delay

54 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.58%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 345 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 2653 flies

DL 2653 flies LAX to LAS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:55, used on 60 of 345 flights, with 22:05 (55 flights) and 21:30 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 21:5560 flights17.4%
Departs 22:0555 flights15.9%
Departs 21:3046 flights13.3%

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 21:55 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2653 runs 7 points better at 77.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2653 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 2653 is about level with 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 trails by 5 points.

DL 2653 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2653thin sample	345	77.0%	54 min	0.58%	B+
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 2653 quarter by quarter

DL 2653 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 83.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 69.2%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 86 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 202592 flights72.8%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights82.0%
Jan–Mar 202685 flights83.3%
Apr–Jun 202679 flights69.2%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2653 did best on Saturday at 89.2% on time and worst on Thursday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2653 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 42% of the 4,282 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
42%
National Airspace System
33%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
Extreme weather
1%
Security
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, 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 1,806 of the 4,282 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,282 delay minutes reported on DL 2653.

Cancellations are rare at 0.58%, below the national 1.81% 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

6.1% 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 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

Every one of the 345 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. 345 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 77.0% on time with 0.58% cancelled over 345 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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