Flight number record

DL 2201

Delta Air Lines · Kalispell to Salt Lake City

Route: FCA → SLC
Departs: 05:20
Flights: 349
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2201, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2201 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.4 hours. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2201's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights

Avg delay

146 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.57%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

4.9%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 349 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 2201 flies

DL 2201 flies FCA to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:20, used on 85 of 349 flights, with 05:00 (65 flights) and 05:05 (42 flights) next.

Departs 05:2085 flights24.4%
Departs 05:0065 flights18.6%
Departs 05:0542 flights12.0%

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 05:20 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2201 runs 2 points worse at 87.0%. 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 2201 next to FCA to SLC

Every carrier on FCA to SLC combined arrived on time 89.4% of the time across 1,125 flights, so DL 2201 is 2 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 6 points.

DL 2201 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2201thin sample	349	87.0%	146 min	0.57%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on FCA–SLC	447	86.7%	122 min	0.45%	A+
All carriers on FCA–SLC	1,125	89.4%	106 min	0.89%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2201 quarter by quarter

DL 2201 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 95.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.3%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 70 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 flights81.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%
Jul–Sep 202646 flights95.7%

Scale runs 75% to 100%.

By weekday, DL 2201 did best on Saturday at 96.1% on time and worst on Wednesday at 81.2%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2201 runs when it is late

DL 2201 often beats the schedule: 108 of 347 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 45 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.

15+ min early108 flights31.1%
Within 15 min194 flights55.9%
15–29 min late18 flights5.2%
30–59 min late10 flights2.9%
1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
2+ hours late11 flights3.2%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 347 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 30 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 18 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 SLC.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2201

The latest arrival of the period was on 12 October 2025, 16 hours 52 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of DL 2201 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
12 October 2025	16 hours 52 minutes	Carrier
11 February 2026	10 hours 55 minutes	Carrier
15 January 2026	10 hours 6 minutes	Carrier
23 December 2025	9 hours 25 minutes	Carrier
12 January 2026	7 hours 45 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 2201 runs late

Carrier accounts for 86% of the 6,564 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
86%
National Airspace System
7%
Extreme weather
7%

The largest share of delay minutes, 86%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,633 of the 6,564 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,564 delay minutes reported on DL 2201.

Cancellations are rare at 0.57%, 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 4.9% 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 532 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 349 flights under DL 2201 in the data flew FCA 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. 349 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 2201

For a booking, DL 2201 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.0% on time and 0.57% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

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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