Flight number record
DL 2824
Delta Air Lines · Cincinnati to Orlando
- Route
- CVG → MCO
- Departs
- 15:55
- Flights
- 356
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2824, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2824 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 356 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights
Avg delay
51 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.40%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 356 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 2824 flies
DL 2824 flies CVG to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:55, used on 80 of 356 flights, with 16:15 (39 flights) and 16:10 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 15:5580 flights22.5%
- Departs 16:1539 flights11.0%
- Departs 16:1036 flights10.1%
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 15:55 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2824 runs 2 points better at 74.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2824 next to CVG to MCO
Every carrier on CVG to MCO combined arrived on time 79.6% of the time across 1,791 flights, so DL 2824 is 5 points behind it. Delta flew 721 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.7% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2824thin sample | 356 | 74.3% | 51 min | 1.40% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on CVG–MCO | 721 | 80.7% | 60 min | 1.53% | B |
| All carriers on CVG–MCO | 1,791 | 79.6% | 72 min | 1.40% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2824 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2824 held fairly steady: 73.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 75.9% in Jan–Mar 2026, 75.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 66.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202524 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights73.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.6%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights66.1%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2824 did best on Wednesday at 83.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 61.2%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2824 runs when it is late
The 89 late arrivals split 41 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 22 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early76 flights22.0%
- Within 15 min181 flights52.3%
- 15–29 min late41 flights11.8%
- 30–59 min late26 flights7.5%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights4.6%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 346 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 59 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 6 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 36 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 MCO.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2824
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 September 2025, 4 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across September, August, October and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2025 | 4 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 August 2026 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 October 2025 | 3 hours 20 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 17 September 2025 | 2 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 February 2026 | 2 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2824 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 46% of the 4,552 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%National Airspace System
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
46% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,071 minutes out of 4,552, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,552 delay minutes reported on DL 2824.
Cancellations sit at 1.40% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.40%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.4% 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 roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
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.
DL 2824 is not only a CVG to MCO flight. It also flew MCO to CVG (356 flights, 68.2% 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. 356 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCO to CVGthin sample | 356 | 68.2% | 95 min | 1.97% | C |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2824
For a booking, DL 2824 is one of the weaker ways to fly CVG to MCO: 5 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- CVG to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to CVG, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 511 on the same route87.1%
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.