Flight number record
DL 716
Delta Air Lines · New York to Denver
- Route
- LGA → DEN
- Departs
- 14:29
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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, 10 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 716 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 95 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 335 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.05%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
11.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.3% 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 716 flies
DL 716 flies LGA to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:29, used on 107 of 361 flights, with 13:59 (70 flights) and 14:20 (53 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 14:29107 flights29.6%
- Departs 13:5970 flights19.4%
- Departs 14:2053 flights14.7%
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 14:29 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 716 runs 4 points worse at 68.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
DL 716 next to LGA to DEN
Every carrier on LGA to DEN combined arrived on time 70.7% of the time across 4,672 flights, so DL 716 is 3 points behind it. Delta flew 1,036 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 716thin sample | 361 | 68.1% | 72 min | 3.05% | C− |
| All Delta Air Lines on LGA–DEN | 1,036 | 71.3% | 71 min | 4.15% | C− |
| All carriers on LGA–DEN | 4,672 | 70.7% | 69 min | 2.93% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | 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 202592 flights65.4%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights54.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.6%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights73.6%
Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 716 did best on Saturday at 77.6% on time and worst on Friday at 63.3%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 716 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 48% of the 7,688 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.
- 48%Carrier
- 31%National Airspace System
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, 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 3,711 of the 7,688 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,688 delay minutes reported on DL 716.
Cancellations run at 3.05%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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. 11.3% 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 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 (297 flights, 67.2% 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. 361 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEN to LGAthin sample | 297 | 67.2% | 74 min | 5.72% | C− |
What to do with this
Booking DL 716
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 716: 3.05% of its 361 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.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to DEN, every carrier and departure
- DEN to LGA, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 751 on the same route83.8%
- United Airlines 2200 on the same route86.1%
- Delta Air Lines 710 on the same route59.7%
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.