Flight number record
DL 2693
Delta Air Lines · Orlando to New York
- Route
- MCO → JFK
- Departs
- 07:40
- Flights
- 304
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2693, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2693 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 304 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2693's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 101 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 302 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.66%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 304 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 2693 flies
DL 2693 flies MCO to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:40, used on 117 of 304 flights, with 06:00 (85 flights) and 13:10 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 07:40117 flights38.5%
- Departs 06:0085 flights28.0%
- Departs 13:1032 flights10.5%
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 07:40 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2693 runs level with that at 87.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2693 next to MCO to JFK
Every carrier on MCO to JFK combined arrived on time 74.9% of the time across 4,813 flights, so DL 2693 is 13 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,981 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2693thin sample | 304 | 87.4% | 65 min | 0.66% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MCO–JFK | 1,981 | 77.9% | 83 min | 3.23% | B− |
| All carriers on MCO–JFK | 4,813 | 74.9% | 84 min | 3.74% | C− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2693 quarter by quarter
DL 2693 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 63.4%, a swing of 33 points on roughly 61 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights95.6%
- Jan–Mar 202642 flights63.4%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights92.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.3%
Scale runs 55% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2693 did best on Wednesday at 95.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 70.7%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2693 runs when it is late
DL 2693 often beats the schedule: 117 of 302 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 38 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 14 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early117 flights38.7%
- Within 15 min147 flights48.7%
- 15–29 min late13 flights4.3%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.6%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 302 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 39 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2693
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 January 2026, 4 hours 31 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across January, July and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 January 2026 | 4 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 July 2026 | 4 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 2 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 2 hours 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 8 February 2026 | 2 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2693 runs late
Carrier accounts for 46% of the 2,479 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Carrier
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,479 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 40 to one. The split is drawn from 2,479 delay minutes reported on DL 2693.
Cancellations are rare at 0.66%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 944 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 SRQ to BOS (1) and BOS to SRQ (1), but none flew often enough under DL 2693 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MCO to JFK only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 304 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 2693
For a booking, DL 2693 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.4% on time and 0.66% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to MCO, the return direction
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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.