Flight number record

DL 2607

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Salt Lake City

Route: MSP → SLC
Departs: 18:10
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2607, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2607 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

On time

77.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 2607 flies

DL 2607 flies MSP to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:10, used on 247 of 361 flights, with 18:58 (62 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:10247 flights68.4%
Departs 18:5862 flights17.2%

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 18:10 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2607 runs 9 points better at 77.6%. 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 2607 next to MSP to SLC

Every carrier on MSP to SLC combined arrived on time 84.1% of the time across 1,596 flights, so DL 2607 is 7 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

DL 2607 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2607thin sample	361	77.6%	60 min	0.00%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–SLC	1,596	84.1%	52 min	0.38%	B+
All carriers on MSP–SLC	1,596	84.1%	52 min	0.38%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2607 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2607 held fairly steady: 79.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 79.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 72.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 79.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights79.3%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights79.1%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights72.2%
Apr–Jun 202688 flights79.5%

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2607 did best on Tuesday at 82.7% on time and worst on Thursday at 70.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2607 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 60% of the 4,886 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
60%
Late-arriving aircraft
19%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
5%

The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, 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 2,935 of the 4,886 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,886 delay minutes reported on DL 2607.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 991 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 361 flights under DL 2607 in the data flew MSP 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. 361 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 2607

For a booking, DL 2607 is one of the weaker ways to fly MSP to SLC: 7 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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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