Flight number record

DL 707

Delta Air Lines · New York to Los Angeles

Route: JFK → LAX
Departs: 19:45
Flights: 348
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 707, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 707 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

On time

74.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 336 completed flights

Avg delay

73 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.45%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 348 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 707 flies

DL 707 flies JFK to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:45, used on 114 of 348 flights, with 19:00 (60 flights) and 19:25 (53 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:45114 flights32.8%
Departs 19:0060 flights17.2%
Departs 19:2553 flights15.2%

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 19:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 707 runs 6 points better at 74.1%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 707 next to JFK to LAX

Every carrier on JFK to LAX combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 10,284 flights, so DL 707 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 3,358 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 8 points.

DL 707 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 707thin sample	348	74.1%	73 min	3.45%	C−
All Delta Air Lines on JFK–LAX	3,358	77.5%	71 min	1.79%	B
All carriers on JFK–LAX	10,284	77.6%	77 min	1.94%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 707 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 707 held fairly steady: 76.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 72.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 75.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 71.8% 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 flights76.4%
Oct–Dec 202586 flights72.3%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights75.6%
Apr–Jun 202681 flights71.8%

Scale runs 65% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 707 did best on Friday at 81.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 64.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 707 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 6,334 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
55%
National Airspace System
32%
Late-arriving aircraft
12%
Extreme weather
1%
Security
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, 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 3,471 of the 6,334 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,334 delay minutes reported on DL 707.

Cancellations run at 3.45%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 2,475 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.

Every one of the 348 flights under DL 707 in the data flew JFK to LAX. 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. 348 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 707

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 707: 3.45% of its 348 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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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