Flight number record
DL 867
Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Orlando
- Route
- LAX → MCO
- Departs
- 11:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 867, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 867 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 867 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 92 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
52 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
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Schedule
When DL 867 flies
DL 867 flies LAX to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 57 of 365 flights, with 10:50 (53 flights) and 10:55 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 11:0057 flights15.6%
- Departs 10:5053 flights14.5%
- Departs 10:5553 flights14.5%
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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 867 runs 10 points worse at 68.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 867 next to LAX to MCO
Every carrier on LAX to MCO combined arrived on time 76.6% of the time across 3,515 flights, so DL 867 is 9 points behind it. Delta flew 1,383 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 867 | 365 | 68.1% | 52 min | 1.92% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on LAX–MCO | 1,383 | 75.8% | 61 min | 1.30% | B |
| All carriers on LAX–MCO | 3,515 | 76.6% | 66 min | 0.68% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 867 quarter by quarter
DL 867 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 60.5%, a swing of 30 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 flights66.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights60.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights68.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights69.0%
Scale runs 50% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 867 did best on Wednesday at 78.0% on time and worst on Friday at 56.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 867 runs when it is late
The 113 late arrivals split 53 under half an hour, 38 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 22 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early62 flights17.5%
- Within 15 min179 flights50.6%
- 15–29 min late53 flights15.0%
- 30–59 min late38 flights10.7%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 60 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 62 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 MCO.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 867
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 January 2026, 6 hours behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 January 2026 | 6 hours | Carrier |
| 17 December 2025 | 4 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 November 2025 | 4 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 December 2025 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 November 2025 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 867 runs late
Carrier accounts for 43% of the 5,846 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Carrier
- 37%National Airspace System
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 0%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,494 of the 5,846 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,846 delay minutes reported on DL 867.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.10%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.2% 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 roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 2,218 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including MCO to LAX (163), but none flew often enough under DL 867 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to MCO only.
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 867
For a booking, DL 867 is one of the weaker ways to fly LAX to MCO: 9 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
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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.