Flight number record

DL 2824

Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Cincinnati

Route: MCO → CVG
Departs: 19:20
Flights: 357
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2824, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2824 draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 357 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2824 runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 113 extra late arrivals.

On time

66.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights

Avg delay

90 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.12%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

12.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 357 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 2824 flies

DL 2824 flies MCO to CVG without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:20, used on 64 of 357 flights, with 19:30 (39 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:2064 flights17.9%
Departs 19:3039 flights10.9%

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 19:20 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2824 runs level with that at 66.3%. 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 2824 next to MCO to CVG

Every carrier on MCO to CVG combined arrived on time 73.9% of the time across 1,781 flights, so DL 2824 is 8 points behind it. Delta flew 722 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 15 points.

DL 2824 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2824thin sample	357	66.3%	90 min	1.12%	C
All Delta Air Lines on MCO–CVG	722	72.5%	86 min	1.25%	C
All carriers on MCO–CVG	1,781	73.9%	78 min	1.40%	C
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2824 quarter by quarter

DL 2824 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 71.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 59.3%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 89 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 202586 flights59.3%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights71.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights63.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights70.3%

Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2824 did best on Tuesday at 82.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 45.8%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 37 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2824 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 11,000 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
41%
Late-arriving aircraft
40%
National Airspace System
12%
Extreme weather
7%

40% 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 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 10,721 delay minutes reported on DL 2824.

Cancellations sit at 1.12% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 757 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.

DL 2824 is not only a MCO to CVG flight. It also flew CVG to MCO (357 flights, 72.1% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 357 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2824
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
CVG to MCOthin sample	357	72.1%	52 min	1.12%	C

What to do with this

Booking DL 2824

For a booking, DL 2824 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.7% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

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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