Flight number record

DL 2693

Delta Air Lines · Orlando to New York

Route: MCO → JFK
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 304
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 304 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2693's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 125 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

90.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 303 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.33%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 304 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 2693 flies

DL 2693 flies MCO to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 147 of 304 flights, with 07:40 (55 flights) and 13:10 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00147 flights48.4%
Departs 07:4055 flights18.1%
Departs 13:1032 flights10.5%

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 06:00 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 90.1%. 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 2693 next to MCO to JFK

Every carrier on MCO to JFK combined arrived on time 74.1% of the time across 4,899 flights, so DL 2693 is 16 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,980 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 9 points.

DL 2693 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2693thin sample	304	90.1%	64 min	0.33%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on MCO–JFK	1,980	78.1%	84 min	2.93%	B
All carriers on MCO–JFK	4,899	74.1%	83 min	2.92%	C
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2693 quarter by quarter

DL 2693 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 95.6% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 63.4%, a swing of 32 points on roughly 76 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 flights94.6%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights95.6%
Jan–Mar 202642 flights63.4%
Apr–Jun 202679 flights92.4%

Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2693 did best on Tuesday at 95.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 81.0%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2693 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 1,926 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
47%
Carrier
38%
National Airspace System
15%

47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,926 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 47 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,926 delay minutes reported on DL 2693.

Cancellations are rare at 0.33%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% 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 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

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: 90.1% on time and 0.33% 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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