Flight number record
DL 713
Delta Air Lines · New York to Los Angeles
- Route
- JFK → LAX
- Departs
- 08:35
- Flights
- 345
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 713, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 713 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 345 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.74%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 345 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 2 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 713 flies
DL 713 flies JFK to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:35, used on 112 of 345 flights, with 08:00 (112 flights) next.
- Departs 08:35112 flights32.5%
- Departs 08:00112 flights32.5%
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 08:35 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 713 runs 9 points worse at 74.6%. 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 713 next to JFK to LAX
Every carrier on JFK to LAX combined arrived on time 75.4% of the time across 10,285 flights, so DL 713 is about level with it. Delta flew 3,366 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 713thin sample | 345 | 74.6% | 65 min | 1.74% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on JFK–LAX | 3,366 | 75.3% | 67 min | 2.55% | B |
| All carriers on JFK–LAX | 10,285 | 75.4% | 78 min | 2.78% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 713 quarter by quarter
DL 713 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.1%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 86 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 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202581 flights67.1%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights77.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights74.7%
- Jul–Sep 202658 flights73.7%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 713 did best on Tuesday at 86.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 67.3%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 713 runs when it is late
DL 713 often beats the schedule: 99 of 339 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 86 late arrivals split 40 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early99 flights29.2%
- Within 15 min154 flights45.4%
- 15–29 min late40 flights11.8%
- 30–59 min late22 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late13 flights3.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 339 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 55 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 45 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 LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 713
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 February 2026, 8 hours 5 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 February 2026 | 8 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 June 2026 | 6 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 May 2026 | 6 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 March 2026 | 4 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 713 runs late
Carrier accounts for 59% of the 5,559 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Carrier
- 30%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,286 of the 5,559 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,559 delay minutes reported on DL 713.
Cancellations sit at 1.74% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.1% 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 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 SEA to SNA (1) and SNA to SEA (1), 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. 345 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 74.6% on time with 1.74% cancelled over 345 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- JFK to LAX, every carrier and departure
- LAX to JFK, the return direction
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- American Airlines 171 on the same route88.1%
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- American Airlines 117 on the same route69.1%
- American Airlines 255 on the same route78.3%
- American Airlines 341 on the same route76.4%
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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 ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.