Flight number record
DL 2658
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Salt Lake City
- Route
- MSP → SLC
- Departs
- 14:20
- Flights
- 255
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2658, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2658 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That rests on 255 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
81.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 253 completed flights
Avg delay
50 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.78%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 255 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 2658 flies
DL 2658 flies MSP to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:20, used on 85 of 255 flights, with 14:25 (55 flights) and 14:49 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 14:2085 flights33.3%
- Departs 14:2555 flights21.6%
- Departs 14:4936 flights14.1%
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 14:20 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2658 runs 9 points better at 81.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2658 next to MSP to SLC
Every carrier on MSP to SLC combined arrived on time 85.1% of the time across 1,616 flights, so DL 2658 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2658thin sample | 255 | 81.0% | 50 min | 0.78% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–SLC | 1,616 | 85.1% | 50 min | 0.43% | A+ |
| All carriers on MSP–SLC | 1,616 | 85.1% | 50 min | 0.43% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2658 quarter by quarter
DL 2658 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 88.5% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 74.2%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 85 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.
- Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights74.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.5%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2658 did best on Tuesday at 88.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 72.2%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2658 runs when it is late
The 48 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early43 flights17.0%
- Within 15 min162 flights64.0%
- 15–29 min late19 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late16 flights6.3%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late3 flights1.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 253 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 44 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2658
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 January 2026, 3 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in February 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | 3 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 January 2026 | 2 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 February 2026 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 February 2026 | 1 hour 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 February 2026 | 1 hour 41 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2658 runs late
Carrier accounts for 59% of the 2,400 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,410 of the 2,400 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,400 delay minutes reported on DL 2658.
Cancellations are rare at 0.78%, 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
5.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 50 minutes, 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.
Every one of the 255 flights under DL 2658 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. 255 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
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For a booking, read DL 2658 as 81.0% on time with 0.78% cancelled over 255 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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 ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.