Flight number record

DL 768

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Nashville

Route: LAX → BNA
Departs: 06:50
Flights: 353
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 353 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 768's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 146 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

92.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights

Avg delay

55 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 353 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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.

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 146 of 353 flights, with 06:45 (54 flights) and 10:10 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:50146 flights41.4%
Departs 06:4554 flights15.3%
Departs 10:1049 flights13.9%

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 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 3 points better at 92.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 768 next to LAX to BNA

Every carrier on LAX to BNA combined arrived on time 81.6% of the time across 2,320 flights, so DL 768 is 11 points ahead of it. Delta flew 909 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

DL 768 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 768thin sample	353	92.2%	55 min	2.27%	A
All Delta Air Lines on LAX–BNA	909	85.8%	62 min	1.54%	A
All carriers on LAX–BNA	2,320	81.6%	64 min	1.08%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 97.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.0%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 88 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 flights97.8%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights93.3%
Jan–Mar 202678 flights80.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 768 ranged from 90.2% on Saturday to 94.2% on Wednesday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 4 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 768 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 65% of the 1,487 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
65%
National Airspace System
25%
Late-arriving aircraft
11%

The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, 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 960 of the 1,487 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,487 delay minutes reported on DL 768.

Cancellations sit at 2.27% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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

Booking DL 768

For a booking, read DL 768 as 92.2% on time with 2.27% cancelled over 353 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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.

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