Flight number record
DL 2845
Delta Air Lines · Orlando to Detroit
- Route
- MCO → DTW
- Departs
- 08:20
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2845, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2845 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2845's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 133 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.83%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2845 flies
DL 2845 flies MCO to DTW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:20, used on 62 of 363 flights, with 09:02 (58 flights) next.
- Departs 08:2062 flights17.1%
- Departs 09:0258 flights16.0%
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 08:20 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2845 runs 7 points better at 90.6%. 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 2845 next to MCO to DTW
Every carrier on MCO to DTW combined arrived on time 72.9% of the time across 3,594 flights, so DL 2845 is 18 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,211 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2845thin sample | 363 | 90.6% | 61 min | 0.83% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MCO–DTW | 2,211 | 74.5% | 80 min | 0.86% | C+ |
| All carriers on MCO–DTW | 3,594 | 72.9% | 73 min | 1.14% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2845 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2845 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.3% in Jan–Mar 2026, 92.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.7% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights85.7%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights94.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.7%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2845 did best on Wednesday at 98.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 82.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2845 runs when it is late
DL 2845 often beats the schedule: 120 of 360 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 17 of the 34 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 9 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early120 flights33.3%
- Within 15 min206 flights57.2%
- 15–29 min late17 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.2%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 360 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
3 of 25 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2845
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 April 2026, 8 hours 57 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2026 | 8 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 August 2026 | 2 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 December 2025 | 2 hours 13 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 22 March 2026 | 1 hour 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 August 2026 | 1 hour 34 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2845 runs late
Carrier accounts for 45% of the 2,061 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 928 of the 2,061 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,061 delay minutes reported on DL 2845.
Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, 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 2.5% 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 957 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.
Every one of the 363 flights under DL 2845 in the data flew MCO to DTW. 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. 363 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 2845
For a booking, DL 2845 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.6% on time and 0.83% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to DTW, every carrier and departure
- DTW to MCO, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1201 on the same route92.3%
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
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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.