Flight number record

DL 713

Delta Air Lines · New York to Los Angeles

Route: JFK → LAX
Departs: 08:35
Flights: 340
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 713, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 713 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 340 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

On time

77.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 335 completed flights

Avg delay

66 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.47%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 340 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 713 flies

DL 713 flies JFK to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:35, used on 142 of 340 flights, with 08:00 (59 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:35142 flights41.8%
Departs 08:0059 flights17.4%

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 08:35 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 713 runs 6 points worse at 77.9%. 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 713 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 713 is about level with 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 4 points.

DL 713 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 713thin sample	340	77.9%	66 min	1.47%	B
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 713 quarter by quarter

DL 713 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 92.4% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.1%, a swing of 25 points on roughly 85 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 202579 flights92.4%
Oct–Dec 202581 flights67.1%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights77.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights74.7%

Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 713 did best on Tuesday at 90.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 70.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 713 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 59% of the 4,853 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
59%
National Airspace System
31%
Extreme weather
7%
Late-arriving aircraft
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, 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 2,839 of the 4,853 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,853 delay minutes reported on DL 713.

Cancellations sit at 1.47% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

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.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including SNA to SEA (4) and SEA to SNA (4), but none flew often enough under DL 713 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to JFK to LAX only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 340 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 713

For a booking, read DL 713 as 77.9% on time with 1.47% cancelled over 340 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.

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