Flight number record

DL 782

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Atlanta

Route: LAX → ATL
Departs: 08:25
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 782, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 782 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 45 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 782's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights

Avg delay

46 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.82%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 782 flies

DL 782 flies LAX to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:25, used on 59 of 365 flights, with 08:15 (57 flights) and 08:35 (56 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:2559 flights16.2%
Departs 08:1557 flights15.6%
Departs 08:3556 flights15.3%

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 08:25 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 782 runs 2 points worse at 82.0%. 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 782 next to LAX to ATL

Every carrier on LAX to ATL combined arrived on time 78.4% of the time across 5,013 flights, so DL 782 is 4 points ahead of it. Delta flew 3,844 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 782 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 782	365	82.0%	46 min	0.82%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on LAX–ATL	3,844	81.5%	64 min	0.86%	B+
All carriers on LAX–ATL	5,013	78.4%	67 min	0.92%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 782 quarter by quarter

DL 782 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 91.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 72.7%, a swing of 19 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 flights91.2%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights72.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.7%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 782 did best on Thursday at 94.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 73.1%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 782 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 60% of the 2,973 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
60%
National Airspace System
29%
Late-arriving aircraft
10%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, 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 1,797 of the 2,973 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,973 delay minutes reported on DL 782.

Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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 3.9% 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 1,947 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 365 flights under DL 782 in the data flew LAX to ATL. 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. 365 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 782

For a booking, read DL 782 as 82.0% on time with 0.82% cancelled over 365 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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