Flight number record
DL 2056
Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Orlando
- Route
- SLC → MCO
- Departs
- 17:25
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2056, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2056 lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2056's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 45 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2056 flies
DL 2056 flies SLC to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:25, used on 86 of 365 flights, with 17:10 (56 flights) and 17:30 (48 flights) next.
- Departs 17:2586 flights23.6%
- Departs 17:1056 flights15.3%
- Departs 17:3048 flights13.2%
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 17:25 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2056 runs 14 points better at 81.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2056 next to SLC to MCO
Every carrier on SLC to MCO combined arrived on time 83.0% of the time across 1,483 flights, so DL 2056 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,409 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2056 | 365 | 81.8% | 71 min | 0.55% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on SLC–MCO | 1,409 | 83.1% | 57 min | 0.71% | B+ |
| All carriers on SLC–MCO | 1,483 | 83.0% | 57 min | 0.67% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2056 quarter by quarter
DL 2056 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 72.6%, a swing of 21 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights72.6%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2056 ranged from 73.1% on Saturday to 84.6% on Sunday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2056 runs when it is late
The 66 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early80 flights22.0%
- Within 15 min217 flights59.8%
- 15–29 min late19 flights5.2%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.0%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 363 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
23 of 80 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2056
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 January 2026, 4 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 May 2026 | 4 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 July 2026 | 3 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 June 2026 | 3 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 December 2025 | 3 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2056 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 4,675 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,675 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 to one. The split is drawn from 4,675 delay minutes reported on DL 2056.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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
8.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 1,931 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 2056 in the data flew SLC to MCO. 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.
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For a booking, read DL 2056 as 81.8% on time with 0.55% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.