Flight number record

DL 2244

Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Detroit

Route: SLC → DTW
Departs: 13:55
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2244, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2244 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2244's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 108 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.28%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When DL 2244 flies

DL 2244 flies SLC to DTW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:55, used on 89 of 363 flights, with 13:50 (56 flights) and 14:15 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:5589 flights24.5%
Departs 13:5056 flights15.4%
Departs 14:1540 flights11.0%

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 13:55 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2244 runs 10 points better at 88.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2244 next to SLC to DTW

Every carrier on SLC to DTW combined arrived on time 89.5% of the time across 1,567 flights, so DL 2244 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,539 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 89.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

DL 2244 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2244thin sample	363	88.4%	60 min	0.28%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on SLC–DTW	1,539	89.4%	61 min	0.19%	A+
All carriers on SLC–DTW	1,567	89.5%	64 min	0.19%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2244 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2244 held fairly steady: 84.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 91.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights84.8%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights91.2%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights88.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.0%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2244 ranged from 82.4% on Wednesday to 94.2% on Monday. 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.

Delay causes

Why DL 2244 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 61% of the 2,506 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
61%
National Airspace System
22%
Late-arriving aircraft
16%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 61%, 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 1,522 of the 2,506 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,506 delay minutes reported on DL 2244.

Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, 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 3.6% 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 1,481 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 363 flights under DL 2244 in the data flew SLC to DTW. 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. 363 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 2244

For a booking, DL 2244 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 88.4% on time and 0.28% 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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