Flight number record

DL 482

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Orlando

Route: LAX → MCO
Departs: 07:55
Flights: 365
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 482, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 482 lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 482's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 47 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights

Avg delay

51 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.82%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

5.9%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 482 flies

DL 482 flies LAX to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:55, used on 94 of 365 flights, with 07:35 (91 flights) and 07:45 (72 flights) next.

Departs 07:5594 flights25.8%
Departs 07:3591 flights24.9%
Departs 07:4572 flights19.7%

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 07:55 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 482 runs 7 points worse at 82.0%. 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 482 next to LAX to MCO

Every carrier on LAX to MCO combined arrived on time 76.6% of the time across 3,515 flights, so DL 482 is 5 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,383 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 482 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 482	365	82.0%	51 min	0.82%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on LAX–MCO	1,383	75.8%	61 min	1.30%	B
All carriers on LAX–MCO	3,515	76.6%	66 min	0.68%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 482 quarter by quarter

DL 482 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 72.7%, a swing of 27 points on roughly 73 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 202530 flights100.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights72.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights80.5%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights81.4%

Scale runs 65% to 100%.

By weekday, DL 482 did best on Monday at 90.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 70.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 482 runs when it is late

The 64 late arrivals split 30 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.

15+ min early59 flights16.6%
Within 15 min233 flights65.4%
15–29 min late30 flights8.4%
30–59 min late13 flights3.7%
1–2 hours late16 flights4.5%
2+ hours late5 flights1.4%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 356 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 36 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 32 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 482

The latest arrival of the period was on 25 July 2026, 3 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of DL 482 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
25 July 2026	3 hours 12 minutes	Carrier
30 November 2025	2 hours 47 minutes	Carrier
12 April 2026	2 hours 44 minutes	Carrier
4 April 2026	2 hours 22 minutes	Carrier
10 June 2026	2 hours 9 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 482 runs late

Carrier accounts for 55% of the 3,238 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
55%
National Airspace System
38%
Late-arriving aircraft
6%

38% 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 1,239 minutes out of 3,238, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,238 delay minutes reported on DL 482.

Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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

5.9% 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 about 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 2,218 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 one other city pair in the data, including MCO to LAX (124), but none flew often enough under DL 482 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to MCO only.

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 482

For a booking, read DL 482 as 82.0% on time with 0.82% 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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