Flight number record
DL 1068
Delta Air Lines · Nashville to Salt Lake City
- Route
- BNA → SLC
- Departs
- 07:35
- Flights
- 252
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1068, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1068 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 252 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1068's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 123 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 249 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.79%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 252 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When DL 1068 flies
DL 1068 flies BNA to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:35, used on 56 of 252 flights, with 07:15 (38 flights) and 07:25 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 07:3556 flights22.2%
- Departs 07:1538 flights15.1%
- Departs 07:2537 flights14.7%
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 07:35 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1068 runs level with that at 89.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 1068 next to BNA to SLC
Every carrier on BNA to SLC combined arrived on time 83.5% of the time across 1,205 flights, so DL 1068 is 6 points ahead of it. Delta flew 933 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1068thin sample | 252 | 89.6% | 89 min | 0.79% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on BNA–SLC | 933 | 87.1% | 61 min | 0.64% | A+ |
| All carriers on BNA–SLC | 1,205 | 83.5% | 56 min | 0.66% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1068 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1068 held fairly steady: 88.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 92.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 87.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Oct–Dec 202510 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights88.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights87.1%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1068 ranged from 83.3% on Wednesday to 94.4% on Friday. With about 36 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1068 runs when it is late
DL 1068 often beats the schedule: 80 of 249 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 26 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early80 flights32.1%
- Within 15 min143 flights57.4%
- 15–29 min late8 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late9 flights3.6%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights1.2%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 249 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 27 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1068
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 March 2026, 6 hours 57 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 March 2026 | 6 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 January 2026 | 4 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 March 2026 | 4 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 March 2026 | 4 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 July 2026 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1068 runs late
Carrier accounts for 86% of the 2,316 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 86%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 86%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,994 of the 2,316 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,316 delay minutes reported on DL 1068.
Cancellations are rare at 0.79%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 1,404 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including JFK to DTW (105), but none flew often enough under DL 1068 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BNA to SLC only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 252 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 1068
For a booking, DL 1068 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.6% on time and 0.79% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- BNA to SLC, every carrier and departure
- SLC to BNA, the return direction
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- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
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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.