Flight number record
DL 782
Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Atlanta
- Route
- LAX → ATL
- Departs
- 08:25
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 782, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 782 lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 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 08:20 (56 flights) next.
- Departs 08:2559 flights16.2%
- Departs 08:1557 flights15.6%
- Departs 08:2056 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 08:25 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 782 runs 4 points worse at 79.8%. 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 782 next to LAX to ATL
Every carrier on LAX to ATL combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 4,843 flights, so DL 782 is about level with it. Delta flew 3,811 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 782 | 365 | 79.8% | 71 min | 0.82% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on LAX–ATL | 3,811 | 80.8% | 66 min | 0.84% | B+ |
| All carriers on LAX–ATL | 4,843 | 78.6% | 68 min | 0.89% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 90.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 72.7%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 73 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 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights72.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights78.7%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 782 did best on Thursday at 92.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 69.2%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 782 runs when it is late
The 73 late arrivals split 34 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early78 flights21.5%
- Within 15 min211 flights58.3%
- 15–29 min late34 flights9.4%
- 30–59 min late19 flights5.2%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 362 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 54 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 29 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at ATL.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 782
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 August 2026, 14 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2026 | 14 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 October 2025 | 8 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 August 2026 | 6 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 July 2026 | 4 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 July 2026 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 782 runs late
Carrier accounts for 70% of the 5,181 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 70%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
- 10%Late-arriving aircraft
- 0%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,609 of the 5,181 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,181 delay minutes reported on DL 782.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, below the national 1.89% 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
5.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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
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For a booking, read DL 782 as 79.8% on time with 0.82% cancelled over 365 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.