Flight number record

DL 2068

Delta Air Lines · New York to Kansas City

Route: LGA → MCI
Departs: 15:35
Flights: 286
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 4 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2068 runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 191 extra late arrivals.

On time

58.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 273 completed flights

Avg delay

88 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.55%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

20.1%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 286 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 20.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Schedule

When DL 2068 flies

DL 2068 flies LGA to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:35, used on 55 of 286 flights, with 15:55 (29 flights) next.

Departs 15:3555 flights19.2%
Departs 15:5529 flights10.1%

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 15:35 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2068 runs 14 points worse at 58.2%. 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 2068 next to LGA to MCI

Every carrier on LGA to MCI combined arrived on time 68.0% of the time across 1,850 flights, so DL 2068 is 10 points behind it. Delta flew 972 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 23 points.

DL 2068 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2068thin sample	286	58.2%	88 min	4.55%	D−
All Delta Air Lines on LGA–MCI	972	70.0%	82 min	5.97%	C−
All carriers on LGA–MCI	1,850	68.0%	75 min	5.24%	C−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	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 73.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 36.0%, a swing of 37 points on roughly 72 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 flights73.3%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights36.0%
Jan–Mar 202624 flights—
Apr–Jun 202691 flights65.9%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights66.7%

Scale runs 30% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2068 did best on Saturday at 73.7% on time and worst on Monday at 45.2%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2068 runs when it is late

DL 2068 often beats the schedule: 74 of 273 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 114 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 33 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 55 an hour or more.

15+ min early74 flights27.1%
Within 15 min85 flights31.1%
15–29 min late26 flights9.5%
30–59 min late33 flights12.1%
1–2 hours late31 flights11.4%
2+ hours late24 flights8.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 273 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 92 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 10 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 32 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MCI.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2068

The latest arrival of the period was on 6 June 2026, 13 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as national airspace system delay.

The latest arrivals of DL 2068 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
6 June 2026	13 hours 15 minutes	Extreme weather
4 September 2025	8 hours 43 minutes	National Airspace System
20 May 2026	5 hours 9 minutes	National Airspace System
7 August 2026	4 hours 58 minutes	National Airspace System
14 April 2026	4 hours 22 minutes	National Airspace System

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 10,000 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
34%
Carrier
30%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
Extreme weather
9%

34% 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 3,367 minutes out of 10,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 10,034 delay minutes reported on DL 2068.

Cancellations run at 4.55%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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

20.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.

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: 4.55% 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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