Flight number record

DL 718

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Orlando

Route: LAX → MCO
Departs: 16:10
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 718, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 718 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

On time

77.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights

Avg delay

83 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.55%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

12.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.3% 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 718 flies

DL 718 flies LAX to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:10, used on 103 of 363 flights, with 16:05 (41 flights) and 15:59 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:10103 flights28.4%
Departs 16:0541 flights11.3%
Departs 15:5938 flights10.5%

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 16:10 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 718 runs 5 points better at 77.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 718 next to LAX to MCO

Every carrier on LAX to MCO combined arrived on time 77.1% of the time across 3,487 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 76.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

DL 718 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 718thin sample	363	77.2%	83 min	0.55%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on LAX–MCO	1,383	76.3%	63 min	1.16%	B
All carriers on LAX–MCO	3,487	77.1%	69 min	0.57%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 82.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 68.9%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 91 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 flights82.4%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights79.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights68.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights78.0%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 718 did best on Tuesday at 84.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 69.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 718 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 6,761 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
50%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, 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 3,354 of the 6,761 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,761 delay minutes reported on DL 718.

Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.3% 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 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. 12.3% 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.

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.

Key figures