Flight number record

DL 716

Delta Air Lines · New York to Denver

Route: LGA → DEN
Departs: 13:59
Flights: 358
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 716, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 716 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 358 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 716 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 73 extra late arrivals.

On time

70.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 333 completed flights

Avg delay

73 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.47%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

12.3%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 358 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Schedule

When DL 716 flies

DL 716 flies LGA to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:59, used on 70 of 358 flights, with 14:20 (65 flights) and 14:29 (57 flights) next.

Departs 13:5970 flights19.6%
Departs 14:2065 flights18.2%
Departs 14:2957 flights15.9%

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 13:59 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 716 runs 8 points worse at 70.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

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Against the route

DL 716 next to LGA to DEN

Every carrier on LGA to DEN combined arrived on time 70.0% of the time across 4,663 flights, so DL 716 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,033 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.7% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 11 points.

DL 716 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 716thin sample	358	70.0%	73 min	4.47%	C−
All Delta Air Lines on LGA–DEN	1,033	70.7%	68 min	4.55%	C−
All carriers on LGA–DEN	4,663	70.0%	71 min	3.28%	C−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 716 quarter by quarter

DL 716 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 54.9%, a swing of 23 points on roughly 90 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 flights—
Oct–Dec 202590 flights54.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.6%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights73.6%
Jul–Sep 202659 flights72.0%

Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 716 did best on Saturday at 80.9% on time and worst on Thursday at 58.3%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 716 runs when it is late

DL 716 often beats the schedule: 95 of 333 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 100 late arrivals split 33 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 41 an hour or more.

15+ min early95 flights28.5%
Within 15 min138 flights41.4%
15–29 min late33 flights9.9%
30–59 min late26 flights7.8%
1–2 hours late24 flights7.2%
2+ hours late17 flights5.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 333 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

10 of 71 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 39 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 DEN.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 716

The latest arrival of the period was on 14 June 2026, 5 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across June, October, July, April and February, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of DL 716 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
14 June 2026	5 hours 42 minutes	Carrier
13 October 2025	4 hours 38 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
9 July 2026	4 hours 22 minutes	National Airspace System
17 April 2026	4 hours 14 minutes	Carrier
12 February 2026	4 hours 4 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why DL 716 runs late

Carrier accounts for 45% of the 7,292 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
45%
National Airspace System
33%
Late-arriving aircraft
20%
Extreme weather
2%

33% 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 2,383 minutes out of 7,292, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 7,292 delay minutes reported on DL 716.

Cancellations run at 4.47%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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

12.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 1,620 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.

DL 716 is not only a LGA to DEN flight. It also flew DEN to LGA (294 flights, 68.7% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 358 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.

Other routes flown as DL 716
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DEN to LGAthin sample	294	68.7%	78 min	5.78%	C−

What to do with this

Booking DL 716

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 716: 4.47% of its 358 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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