Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL500
Atlanta (ATL) to Los Angeles (LAX) · scheduled 6:30 PM – 8:27 PM
How DL500 performs
1,020 operations, 2023-07-09 to 2026-06-30.
DL500 arrived on time 72.3% of the time, against 77.3% for all ATL → LAX flights — this specific departure is 5.0 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’s own flights on this route it is 5.8 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 1,020 operations between 2023-07-09 to 2026-06-30
Against the rest of the route
| On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL500 | 72.3% | 0.29% | -1 min | 7.9% | 1,020 |
| Delta Air Lines on ATL → LAX | 78.0% | 0.67% | -4 min | 6.0% | 11,839 |
| All ATL → LAX flights | 77.3% | 0.84% | -4 min | 6.7% | 15,880 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2023-07-09 to 2026-06-30
By day of week
Does DL500 run worse on particular days?
Saturday is historically the most reliable day and Thursday the least, a gap of 10.7 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2023-07-09 to 2026-06-30 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes DL500 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.
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL500 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 1,020 records of DL500 operating ATL → 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.