Flight number record

DL 462

Delta Air Lines · Raleigh to Los Angeles

Route: RDU → LAX
Departs: 07:45
Flights: 304
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 462, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 462 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 304 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 462's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 84 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 301 completed flights

Avg delay

85 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.99%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 304 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 462 flies

DL 462 flies RDU to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:45, used on 118 of 304 flights, with 17:15 (59 flights) and 17:55 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:45118 flights38.8%
Departs 17:1559 flights19.4%
Departs 17:5536 flights11.8%

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 07:45 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 462 runs 3 points worse at 86.0%. 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 462 next to RDU to LAX

Every carrier on RDU to LAX combined arrived on time 84.4% of the time across 802 flights, so DL 462 is 2 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

DL 462 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 462thin sample	304	86.0%	85 min	0.99%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on RDU–LAX	383	84.5%	75 min	0.78%	B+
All carriers on RDU–LAX	802	84.4%	83 min	0.87%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 462 quarter by quarter

DL 462 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 94.2% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 63.9%, a swing of 30 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 202586 flights94.2%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.4%
Apr–Jun 202636 flights63.9%

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

By weekday, DL 462 ranged from 79.5% on Tuesday to 90.5% on Friday. With about 43 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 462 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 60% of the 3,568 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
60%
Late-arriving aircraft
27%
National Airspace System
13%

The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,134 of the 3,568 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,568 delay minutes reported on DL 462.

Cancellations sit at 0.99% 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 3.7% 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.

At 2,239 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including LAX to RDU (60) and MCO to LAX (31), but none flew often enough under DL 462 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to RDU to LAX 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 462

For a booking, DL 462 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.0% on time and 0.99% 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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