Flight number record

DL 2628

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Salt Lake City

Route: MSP → SLC
Departs: 08:00
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2628, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2628 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2628's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 142 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 364 completed flights

Avg delay

44 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 2628 flies

DL 2628 flies MSP to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 70 of 365 flights, with 07:45 (65 flights) and 08:22 (56 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:0070 flights19.2%
Departs 07:4565 flights17.8%
Departs 08:2256 flights15.3%

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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2628 runs 8 points better at 91.8%. 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 2628 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 2628 is 8 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

DL 2628 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2628	365	91.8%	44 min	0.27%	A+
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 2628 quarter by quarter

DL 2628 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 97.8% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 83.7%, 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 flights97.8%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights83.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.7%

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

By weekday, DL 2628 ranged from 88.5% on Thursday to 94.2% on Wednesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2628 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 66% of the 1,318 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
66%
National Airspace System
21%
Late-arriving aircraft
12%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, 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 866 of the 1,318 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,318 delay minutes reported on DL 2628.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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 2.2% 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 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 365 flights under DL 2628 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. 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 2628

For a booking, DL 2628 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.8% on time and 0.27% 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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