Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL450
Miami (MIA) to Los Angeles (LAX) · scheduled 7:50 AM – 10:57 AM
How DL450 performs
785 operations, June 2024 – July 2026.
DL450 arrived on time 87.1% of the time, against 74.0% for all MIA → LAX flights, so this departure is 13.1 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 2.4 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 785 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If DL450 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How DL450 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the MIA → LAX route as a whole, better than 96% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
87.1% on time for this specific departure, against 74.0% for every MIA → LAX flight.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – 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.
Where DL450 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL450 | 87.1% | 0.89% | -11 min | 4.8% | 785 |
| Delta Air Lines on MIA → LAX | 84.7% | 0.85% | -10 min | 4.8% | 1,289 |
| All MIA → LAX flights | 74.0% | 0.51% | -5 min | 9.2% | 10,497 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
Why DL450 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL450 on MIA → LAX. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL450 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, DL450 pushed back an average of 34 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 MIA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 714 of 779 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.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| DL450 | 25% | 38% | 5% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 68% | 9% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often DL450’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often DL450 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MIA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches LAX?
DL450 pushes back an average of 11.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAX an average of 0.0 minutes early. The 11.3 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 19.9 minutes on the taxiways at MIA, 1.9 minutes longer than a typical MIA departure in the same hour.
On arrival at LAX, DL450 spends 11.2 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 LAX 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 LAX. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 19,818 departures from MIA scheduled in the clock hour DL450 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at LAX (595,170 flights), not just DL450’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves MIA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. DL450 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 19,818 departures from MIA are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 340,469 across the whole day.
DL450 is scheduled out of MIA at 7:50 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from MIA in that hour arrive on time 89.1% of the time against 73.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 16.0 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from MIA 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 · June 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL450 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEA→BNA Seattle to Nashville | July 1, 2023 – June 6, 2024 | 252 | 83.7% |
| DTW→SFO Detroit to San Francisco | January 8, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 62 | — |
| SFO→DTW San Francisco to Detroit | January 13, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 15 | — |
| MSP→BDL Minneapolis to Hartford | November 23, 2023 | 1 | — |
| SAN→JFK San Diego to New York | October 28, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 8 | — |
| DCA→LAX Washington to Los Angeles | October 9–27, 2023 | 19 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL450 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
21 min late
against a median of 11 min early
Percentiles over 785 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 785 records of DL450 operating MIA → LAX, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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