Flight number record
DL 1194
Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Salt Lake City
- Route
- LAX → SLC
- Departs
- 11:35
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1194, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1194 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1194's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 112 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.27%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 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 1194 flies
DL 1194 flies LAX to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:35, used on 96 of 365 flights, with 11:05 (41 flights) next.
- Departs 11:3596 flights26.3%
- Departs 11:0541 flights11.2%
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 11:35 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 1194 runs 10 points better at 88.5%. 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 1194 next to LAX to SLC
Every carrier on LAX to SLC combined arrived on time 87.2% of the time across 4,195 flights, so DL 1194 is about level with it. Delta flew 2,457 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 88.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1194 | 365 | 88.5% | 64 min | 0.27% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on LAX–SLC | 2,457 | 88.4% | 80 min | 0.53% | A+ |
| All carriers on LAX–SLC | 4,195 | 87.2% | 72 min | 0.50% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1194 quarter by quarter
DL 1194 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 95.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 80.3%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 73 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights95.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights84.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.3%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1194 ranged from 84.6% on Saturday to 94.1% on Wednesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1194 runs when it is late
DL 1194 often beats the schedule: 153 of 364 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 42 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 14 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early153 flights42.0%
- Within 15 min169 flights46.4%
- 15–29 min late12 flights3.3%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.4%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights1.9%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 364 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 49 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. Only 1 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1194
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 May 2026, 5 hours 40 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 May 2026 | 5 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 July 2026 | 2 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 August 2026 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 February 2026 | 2 hours 29 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 3 August 2026 | 2 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1194 runs late
Carrier accounts for 59% of the 2,681 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,591 of the 2,681 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,681 delay minutes reported on DL 1194.
Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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 3.8% 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 590 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.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 1194 in the data flew LAX to SLC. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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 1194
For a booking, DL 1194 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.5% on time and 0.27% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to SLC, every carrier and departure
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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.