Flight number record
DL 1270
Delta Air Lines · Portland to Salt Lake City
- Route
- PDX → SLC
- Departs
- 05:45
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1270, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1270 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 20 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 35 minutes. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1270's record is 20 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 202 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
97.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights
Avg delay
33 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.27%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
0.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 1270 flies
DL 1270 flies PDX to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:45, used on 201 of 365 flights, with 05:30 (80 flights) and 05:50 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 05:45201 flights55.1%
- Departs 05:3080 flights21.9%
- Departs 05:5038 flights10.4%
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 05:45 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1270 runs 8 points better at 97.5%. 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 1270 next to PDX to SLC
Every carrier on PDX to SLC combined arrived on time 89.1% of the time across 2,383 flights, so DL 1270 is 8 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,696 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 90.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1270 | 365 | 97.5% | 33 min | 0.27% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on PDX–SLC | 1,696 | 90.8% | 61 min | 1.47% | A |
| All carriers on PDX–SLC | 2,383 | 89.1% | 64 min | 1.09% | A |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1270 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1270 held fairly steady: 100.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 97.8% in Jan–Mar 2026, 98.9% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 98.4% 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.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights97.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights98.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights98.4%
Scale runs 85% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1270 ranged from 94.2% on Saturday to 100.0% on Wednesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1270 runs when it is late
DL 1270 often beats the schedule: 141 of 364 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 7 of the 9 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 1 reached an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early141 flights38.7%
- Within 15 min214 flights58.8%
- 15–29 min late7 flights1.9%
- 30–59 min late1 flights0.3%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.3%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 364 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 8 of 364 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1270
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 October 2025, 1 hour 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 October 2025 | 1 hour 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 February 2026 | 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 December 2025 | 21 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 22 August 2026 | 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 18 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 1270 runs late
Carrier accounts for 80% of the 296 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 80%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 80%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 236 of the 296 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 296 delay minutes reported on DL 1270.
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 0.3% 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 630 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 1270 in the data flew PDX 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 1270
For a booking, DL 1270 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 97.5% on time and 0.27% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
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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.