Flight number record

DL 2068

Delta Air Lines · New York to Kansas City

Route: LGA → MCI
Departs: 14:10
Flights: 286
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2068, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2068 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 286 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2068 runs 18 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 185 extra late arrivals.

On time

59.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 276 completed flights

Avg delay

95 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.50%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

19.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 286 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 2068 flies

DL 2068 flies LGA to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:10, used on 59 of 286 flights, with 15:55 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:1059 flights20.6%
Departs 15:5535 flights12.2%

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 14:10 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2068 runs 13 points worse at 59.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2068 next to LGA to MCI

Every carrier on LGA to MCI combined arrived on time 68.7% of the time across 1,796 flights, so DL 2068 is 10 points behind it. Delta flew 975 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 22 points.

DL 2068 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2068thin sample	286	59.1%	95 min	3.50%	D−
All Delta Air Lines on LGA–MCI	975	70.1%	85 min	5.03%	C−
All carriers on LGA–MCI	1,796	68.7%	76 min	4.57%	C−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2068 quarter by quarter

DL 2068 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 71.1% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 36.0%, a swing of 35 points on roughly 95 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 flights71.1%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights36.0%
Jan–Mar 202624 flights—
Apr–Jun 202691 flights65.9%

Scale runs 30% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2068 did best on Saturday at 72.5% on time and worst on Friday at 52.5%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2068 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 11,000 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
36%
Carrier
30%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
Extreme weather
10%

36% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 3,895 minutes out of 11,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 10,674 delay minutes reported on DL 2068.

Cancellations run at 3.50%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 19.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 1,107 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.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including MCI to LGA (130), ATL to SDF (24) and SDF to ATL (13), but none flew often enough under DL 2068 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LGA to MCI only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 286 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 2068

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2068: 3.50% of its 286 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

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.

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