Flight number record

DL 2273

Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Cincinnati

Route: SLC → CVG
Departs: 09:40
Flights: 362
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2273, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2273 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 50 minutes. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2273's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 149 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

92.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights

Avg delay

51 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.83%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

2.0%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 362 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 2273 flies

DL 2273 flies SLC to CVG without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:40, used on 57 of 362 flights, with 09:53 (48 flights) and 09:25 (41 flights) next.

Departs 09:4057 flights15.7%
Departs 09:5348 flights13.3%
Departs 09:2541 flights11.3%

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 09:40 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2273 runs 8 points better at 92.2%. 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 2273 next to SLC to CVG

Every carrier on SLC to CVG combined arrived on time 88.6% of the time across 816 flights, so DL 2273 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

DL 2273 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2273thin sample	362	92.2%	51 min	0.83%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on SLC–CVG	816	88.6%	55 min	0.37%	A+
All carriers on SLC–CVG	816	88.6%	55 min	0.37%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2273 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2273 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 95.3% in Jan–Mar 2026, 90.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 91.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights92.2%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights95.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.0%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.9%

Scale runs 80% to 100%.

By weekday, DL 2273 ranged from 86.5% on Friday to 96.1% on Sunday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2273 runs when it is late

DL 2273 often beats the schedule: 133 of 358 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 28 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more.

15+ min early133 flights37.2%
Within 15 min197 flights55.0%
15–29 min late13 flights3.6%
30–59 min late8 flights2.2%
1–2 hours late5 flights1.4%
2+ hours late2 flights0.6%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 358 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 30 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 12 still arrived on time. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2273

The latest arrival of the period was on 6 June 2026, 3 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of DL 2273 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
6 June 2026	3 hours 22 minutes	Carrier
31 December 2025	3 hours 6 minutes	Carrier
17 October 2025	1 hour 35 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
12 September 2025	1 hour 27 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
15 October 2025	1 hour 24 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 2273 runs late

Carrier accounts for 72% of the 1,420 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
72%
Late-arriving aircraft
14%
National Airspace System
14%

The largest share of delay minutes, 72%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,026 of the 1,420 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,420 delay minutes reported on DL 2273.

Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, 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 2.0% 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 1,450 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 362 flights under DL 2273 in the data flew SLC to CVG. 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. 362 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 2273

For a booking, DL 2273 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.2% on time and 0.83% 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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