Flight number record

DL 773

Delta Air Lines · New York to Los Angeles

Route: JFK → LAX
Departs: 09:40
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 773, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 773 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 773's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 43 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

81.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.83%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 773 flies

DL 773 flies JFK to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:40, used on 81 of 363 flights, with 09:55 (67 flights) and 09:00 (55 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:4081 flights22.3%
Departs 09:5567 flights18.5%
Departs 09:0055 flights15.2%

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 09:40 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 773 runs 2 points worse at 81.9%. 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 773 next to JFK to LAX

Every carrier on JFK to LAX combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 10,284 flights, so DL 773 is 4 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,358 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 773 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 773thin sample	363	81.9%	62 min	0.83%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on JFK–LAX	3,358	77.5%	71 min	1.79%	B
All carriers on JFK–LAX	10,284	77.6%	77 min	1.94%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 773 quarter by quarter

DL 773 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 89.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 76.9%, a swing of 12 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 flights89.1%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights77.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 773 did best on Tuesday at 90.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 67.3%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 773 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 56% of the 4,022 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
56%
National Airspace System
30%
Extreme weather
9%
Late-arriving aircraft
5%

The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, 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 2,249 of the 4,022 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,022 delay minutes reported on DL 773.

Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.7% 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 2,475 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 773 in the data flew JFK to LAX. 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 773

For a booking, read DL 773 as 81.9% on time with 0.83% cancelled over 363 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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