Flight number record
DL 1116
Delta Air Lines · Long Beach to Salt Lake City
- Route
- LGB → SLC
- Departs
- 13:00
- Flights
- 255
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1116, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1116 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 10 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 255 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1116's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 99 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 250 completed flights
Avg delay
98 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.18%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 255 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 1116 flies
DL 1116 flies LGB to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:00, used on 85 of 255 flights, with 13:05 (74 flights) and 13:15 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 13:0085 flights33.3%
- Departs 13:0574 flights29.0%
- Departs 13:1540 flights15.7%
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 13:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 1116 runs 9 points better at 87.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 1116 next to LGB to SLC
Every carrier on LGB to SLC combined arrived on time 88.7% of the time across 1,569 flights, so DL 1116 is 2 points behind it. Delta flew 529 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 88.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1116thin sample | 255 | 87.2% | 98 min | 1.18% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on LGB–SLC | 529 | 88.3% | 90 min | 1.13% | A |
| All carriers on LGB–SLC | 1,569 | 88.7% | 75 min | 0.45% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1116 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1116 held fairly steady: 86.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 88.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 85.2% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.2%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1116 did best on Friday at 100.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 77.1%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1116 runs when it is late
DL 1116 often beats the schedule: 108 of 250 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 32 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early108 flights43.2%
- Within 15 min110 flights44.0%
- 15–29 min late13 flights5.2%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.8%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 250 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 32 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1116
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 April 2026, 18 hours 8 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 April 2026 | 18 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 March 2026 | 3 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 April 2026 | 3 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 August 2026 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1116 runs late
Carrier accounts for 98% of the 3,150 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 98%Carrier
- 2%National Airspace System
- 0%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 98%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,084 of the 3,150 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,150 delay minutes reported on DL 1116.
Cancellations sit at 1.18% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.78%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% 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 588 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.
DL 1116 is not only a LGB to SLC flight. It also flew SLC to LGB (255 flights, 89.2% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 255 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SLC to LGBthin sample | 255 | 89.2% | 74 min | 1.57% | A |
What to do with this
Booking DL 1116
For a booking, DL 1116 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.2% on time and 1.18% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- LGB to SLC, every carrier and departure
- SLC to LGB, the return direction
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- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a 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.