Flight number record

DL 2201

Delta Air Lines · Kalispell to Salt Lake City

Route: FCA → SLC
Departs: 05:20
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.4 hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2201's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 100 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights

Avg delay

146 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.55%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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.

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 105 of 365 flights, with 05:00 (65 flights) and 05:05 (42 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:20105 flights28.8%
Departs 05:0065 flights17.8%
Departs 05:0542 flights11.5%

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 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 level with that at 87.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 2201 next to FCA to SLC

Every carrier on FCA to SLC combined arrived on time 91.6% of the time across 1,159 flights, so DL 2201 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 6 points.

DL 2201 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2201	365	87.6%	146 min	0.55%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on FCA–SLC	412	87.8%	137 min	0.49%	A+
All carriers on FCA–SLC	1,159	91.6%	111 min	0.86%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2201 quarter by quarter

DL 2201 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 95.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.3%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 91 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 flights95.7%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2201 did best on Saturday at 96.1% on time and worst on Friday at 82.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2201 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 86% of the 6,568 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

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. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 5,618 of the 6,568 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,568 delay minutes reported on DL 2201.

Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.81% 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 4.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. 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.

Every one of the 365 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. 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 2201

For a booking, DL 2201 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.6% on time and 0.55% 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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