Flight number record
DL 1194
Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to Salt Lake City
- Route
- LAX → SLC
- Departs
- 11:11
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. 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 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 125 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 365 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
3.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Schedule
When DL 1194 flies
DL 1194 flies LAX to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:11, used on 64 of 365 flights, with 11:35 (63 flights) and 11:40 (52 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 11:1164 flights17.5%
- Departs 11:3563 flights17.3%
- Departs 11:4052 flights14.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 11:11 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 1194 runs 11 points better at 90.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
DL 1194 next to LAX to SLC
Every carrier on LAX to SLC combined arrived on time 87.7% of the time across 4,144 flights, so DL 1194 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,451 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 88.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1194 | 365 | 90.1% | 55 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on LAX–SLC | 2,451 | 88.5% | 79 min | 0.41% | A+ |
| All carriers on LAX–SLC | 4,144 | 87.7% | 75 min | 0.41% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | 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 Jan–Mar 2026 at 84.4%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights90.2%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights95.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights84.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1194 ranged from 84.9% on Tuesday to 96.2% on Wednesday. With about 52 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.
Delay causes
Why DL 1194 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 49% of the 1,984 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 49%Carrier
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%National Airspace System
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,984 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 40 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,984 delay minutes reported on DL 1194.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 3.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
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: 90.1% on time and 0.00% 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
- SLC to LAX, the return direction
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.