Flight number record
DL 2698
Delta Air Lines · Seattle to Phoenix
- Route
- SEA → PHX
- Departs
- 18:30
- Flights
- 348
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2698, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2698 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 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
73.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.86%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 348 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 2698 flies
DL 2698 flies SEA to PHX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:30, used on 57 of 348 flights, with 19:35 (55 flights) and 19:55 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 18:3057 flights16.4%
- Departs 19:3555 flights15.8%
- Departs 19:5553 flights15.2%
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 18:30 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2698 runs 6 points better at 73.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2698 next to SEA to PHX
Every carrier on SEA to PHX combined arrived on time 78.2% of the time across 7,205 flights, so DL 2698 is 5 points behind it. Delta flew 1,768 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2698thin sample | 348 | 73.7% | 56 min | 0.86% | C+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on SEA–PHX | 1,768 | 80.9% | 67 min | 0.96% | B+ |
| All carriers on SEA–PHX | 7,205 | 78.2% | 57 min | 0.74% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2698 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2698 held fairly steady: 75.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 70.1% in Jan–Mar 2026, 74.7% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 71.7% 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 202525 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights75.3%
- Jan–Mar 202681 flights70.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights74.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights71.7%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2698 ranged from 70.2% on Sunday to 78.4% on Tuesday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2698 runs when it is late
The 90 late arrivals split 42 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early82 flights24.0%
- Within 15 min170 flights49.7%
- 15–29 min late42 flights12.3%
- 30–59 min late25 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 342 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 83 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. In the other direction, 24 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at PHX.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2698
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 January 2026, 11 hours 54 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 January 2026 | 11 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 July 2026 | 4 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 September 2025 | 2 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 May 2026 | 2 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2698 runs late
Carrier accounts for 56% of the 5,057 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,840 of the 5,057 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,057 delay minutes reported on DL 2698.
Cancellations are rare at 0.86%, 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
6.7% 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 an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,107 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 348 flights under DL 2698 in the data flew SEA to PHX. 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. 348 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 2698
For a booking, read DL 2698 as 73.7% on time with 0.86% cancelled over 348 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
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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.