Flight number record
DL 718
Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Orlando
- Route
- LAX → MCO
- Departs
- 16:10
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 718, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 718 sits in the middle of the pack with a B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.83%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
12.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 718 flies
DL 718 flies LAX to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:10, used on 82 of 363 flights, with 15:45 (65 flights) and 15:59 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 16:1082 flights22.6%
- Departs 15:4565 flights17.9%
- Departs 15:5938 flights10.5%
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 16:10 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 718 runs 3 points better at 75.2%. 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 718 next to LAX to MCO
Every carrier on LAX to MCO combined arrived on time 76.6% of the time across 3,515 flights, so DL 718 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,383 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 718thin sample | 363 | 75.2% | 79 min | 0.83% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on LAX–MCO | 1,383 | 75.8% | 61 min | 1.30% | B |
| All carriers on LAX–MCO | 3,515 | 76.6% | 66 min | 0.68% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 718 quarter by quarter
DL 718 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 63.9%, a swing of 33 points on roughly 73 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights79.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights68.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights78.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights63.9%
Scale runs 55% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 718 did best on Monday at 84.9% on time and worst on Friday at 68.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 718 runs when it is late
The 89 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 43 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early66 flights18.4%
- Within 15 min204 flights56.8%
- 15–29 min late24 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late22 flights6.1%
- 1–2 hours late26 flights7.2%
- 2+ hours late17 flights4.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 82 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 718
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 October 2025, 6 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 October 2025 | 6 hours 19 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 July 2026 | 5 hours | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 4 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 February 2026 | 4 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 January 2026 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 718 runs late
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 7,045 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,693 of the 7,045 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,045 delay minutes reported on DL 718.
Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
12.0% 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 2,218 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 363 flights under DL 718 in the data flew LAX to MCO. 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. 363 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 718
For a booking, DL 718 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.0% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to LAX, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 867 on the same route68.1%
- Delta Air Lines 482 on the same route82.0%
- United Airlines 1621 on the same route88.9%
- American Airlines 1024 on the same route67.8%
- American Airlines 1118 on the same route80.6%
- Delta Air Lines 547 on the same route78.2%
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
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- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.