Flight number record

DL 2413

Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Chicago

Route: SLC → ORD
Departs: 17:45
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2413, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2413 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.

On time

74.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.83%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 2413 flies

DL 2413 flies SLC to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:45, used on 114 of 363 flights, with 17:30 (52 flights) and 17:55 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:45114 flights31.4%
Departs 17:3052 flights14.3%
Departs 17:5546 flights12.7%

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 17:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2413 runs 6 points better at 74.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2413 next to SLC to ORD

Every carrier on SLC to ORD combined arrived on time 75.3% of the time across 3,198 flights, so DL 2413 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,010 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 8 points.

DL 2413 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2413thin sample	363	74.0%	81 min	0.83%	C+
All Delta Air Lines on SLC–ORD	1,010	76.8%	70 min	0.69%	B+
All carriers on SLC–ORD	3,198	75.3%	90 min	1.22%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2413 quarter by quarter

DL 2413 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 81.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 70.5%, a swing of 11 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 flights81.3%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights70.5%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights71.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights72.7%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2413 did best on Saturday at 85.1% on time and worst on Monday at 65.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2413 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 44% of the 7,443 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.

National Airspace System
44%
Carrier
36%
Late-arriving aircraft
19%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, 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 2,662 of the 7,443 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,443 delay minutes reported on DL 2413.

Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 1,250 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 2413 in the data flew SLC to ORD. 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 2413

For a booking, read DL 2413 as 74.0% on time with 0.83% cancelled over 363 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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