DL2253

DL2253 arrived on time 92.1% of the time, against 76.7% for all LAX → LAS flights, so this departure is 15.4 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 13.5 points better.

DL2253’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 7:00 AM earlier on, and around 7:30 AM more recently — a 30-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 905 operations, September 2023 – July 2026 · If DL2253 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far ahead of the LAX → LAS route as a whole, better than 98% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.

92.1% on time for this specific departure, against 76.7% for every LAX → LAS flight.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL2253 on LAX → LAS. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026

DL2253 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 9.6 hours on the ground at LAX, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, DL2253 pushed back an average of 3 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 3 minutes early.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into LAX just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 653 of 898 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026

DL2253 pushes back an average of 1.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAS an average of 3.4 minutes early. The 4.9 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. Its 17.0 minutes on the taxiways at LAX is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at LAS, DL2253 spends 8.2 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at LAS spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached LAS. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 36,629 departures from LAX scheduled in the clock hour DL2253 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at LAS (569,643 flights), not just DL2253’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026

DL2253 is scheduled out of LAX at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from LAX in that hour arrive on time 89.0% of the time against 81.4% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.6 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from LAX to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL2253 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. DL2253 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.

• UA1006 LAX→LAS United Airlines on the same route, departs 8:20 AM, on time 90.2%
• DL2120 LAX→LAS Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 3:05 PM, on time 69.4%
• F93292 LAX→LAS Frontier Airlines on the same route, departs 9:30 PM, on time 67.8%
• DL553 LAS→LAX Return trip, LAS to LAX, departs 6:00 AM, on time 91.9%