DL2653

DL2653 arrived on time 74.9% of the time, against 76.7% for all LAX → LAS flights, so this departure is 1.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 3.7 points worse.

DL2653’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 10:45 PM earlier on, and around 10:00 PM more recently — a 45-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 · 805 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If DL2653 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

Which day you fly matters unusually much here, a wider weekday spread than 97% of 1,710 comparable flight numbers.

87.7% on time on a typical Tuesday, against 66.7% on a Thursday.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL2653 on LAX → LAS. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, DL2653 pushed back an average of 37 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 0 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into LAX just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 754 of 798 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 July 2023 – July 2026

DL2653 pushes back an average of 9.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAS an average of 7.0 minutes late. The 2.4 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. It spends 16.4 minutes on the taxiways at LAX, 1.7 minutes shorter than a typical LAX departure in the same hour.

On arrival at LAS, DL2653 spends 11.8 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 4.2 minutes longer than a typical LAS arrival (7.7 min).

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 26,417 departures from LAX scheduled in the clock hour DL2653 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 DL2653’s own. More on taxi time.

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

DL2653 is scheduled out of LAX at 10:05 PM, in the 10 PM–11 PM bank. Departures from LAX in that hour arrive on time 80.2% of the time against 81.4% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour DL2653 leaves in is an ordinary one for LAX and explains nothing about its record either way.

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 · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 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 DL2653 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. DL2653 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.

• F93292 LAX→LAS Frontier Airlines on the same route, departs 9:30 PM, on time 67.8%
• AA2785 LAX→LAS American Airlines on the same route, departs 7:47 PM, on time 71.6%
• DL2120 LAX→LAS Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 3:05 PM, on time 69.4%