Flight number record

DL 2953

Delta Air Lines · Melbourne to Atlanta

Route: MLB → ATL
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2953, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2953 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 18 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2953's record is 18 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 182 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

95.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights

Avg delay

110 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.64%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 2953 flies

DL 2953 flies MLB to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 197 of 365 flights, with 05:50 (75 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00197 flights54.0%
Departs 05:5075 flights20.5%

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 2953 runs 7 points better at 95.8%. 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 2953 next to MLB to ATL

Every carrier on MLB to ATL combined arrived on time 87.9% of the time across 1,448 flights, so DL 2953 is 8 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 14 points.

DL 2953 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2953	365	95.8%	110 min	1.64%	A
All Delta Air Lines on MLB–ATL	1,448	87.9%	78 min	1.38%	A
All carriers on MLB–ATL	1,448	87.9%	78 min	1.38%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2953 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2953 held fairly steady: 95.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 97.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 96.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights95.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights97.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights93.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.7%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2953 ranged from 94.1% on Saturday to 98.0% on Monday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 4 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2953 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 1,649 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.

Carrier
47%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
Extreme weather
11%
National Airspace System
7%
Security
6%

Extreme weather accounts for 11% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 1.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,649 delay minutes reported on DL 2953.

Cancellations sit at 1.64% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.9% 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.

Every one of the 365 flights under DL 2953 in the data flew MLB to ATL. 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. 365 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 2953

For a booking, read DL 2953 as 95.8% on time with 1.64% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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.

Key figures