Flight number record
DL 768
Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Nashville
- Route
- LAX → BNA
- Departs
- 06:50
- Flights
- 353
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 768, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 768 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 353 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 768's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 143 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.70%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 353 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 768 flies
DL 768 flies LAX to BNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:50, used on 90 of 353 flights, with 06:00 (57 flights) and 06:45 (54 flights) next.
- Departs 06:5090 flights25.5%
- Departs 06:0057 flights16.1%
- Departs 06:4554 flights15.3%
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 06:50 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 768 runs 2 points better at 91.6%. 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 768 next to LAX to BNA
Every carrier on LAX to BNA combined arrived on time 79.8% of the time across 2,322 flights, so DL 768 is 12 points ahead of it. Delta flew 911 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 768thin sample | 353 | 91.6% | 53 min | 1.70% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on LAX–BNA | 911 | 85.0% | 61 min | 1.32% | A |
| All carriers on LAX–BNA | 2,322 | 79.8% | 61 min | 0.90% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 768 quarter by quarter
DL 768 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.0%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 71 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 202592 flights93.3%
- Jan–Mar 202678 flights80.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights95.2%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 768 ranged from 88.1% on Saturday to 94.2% on Wednesday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 768 runs when it is late
DL 768 often beats the schedule: 109 of 347 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 29 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 6 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early109 flights31.4%
- Within 15 min209 flights60.2%
- 15–29 min late8 flights2.3%
- 30–59 min late15 flights4.3%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.2%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 347 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 21 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 768
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 November 2025, 4 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 November 2025 | 4 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 March 2026 | 2 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 June 2026 | 1 hour 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 February 2026 | 1 hour 24 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 January 2026 | 1 hour 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 768 runs late
Carrier accounts for 60% of the 1,546 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Carrier
- 30%National Airspace System
- 10%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 933 of the 1,546 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,546 delay minutes reported on DL 768.
Cancellations sit at 1.70% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 1,798 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 353 flights under DL 768 in the data flew LAX to BNA. 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. 353 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
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For a booking, read DL 768 as 91.6% on time with 1.70% cancelled over 353 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.