Flight number record

DL 2698

Delta Air Lines · Seattle to Phoenix

Route: SEA → PHX
Departs: 19:30
Flights: 344
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 344 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

On time

75.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 340 completed flights

Avg delay

56 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.87%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 344 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 2698 flies

DL 2698 flies SEA to PHX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:30, used on 61 of 344 flights, with 19:55 (57 flights) and 19:35 (55 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:3061 flights17.7%
Departs 19:5557 flights16.6%
Departs 19:3555 flights16.0%

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 19:30 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2698 runs 8 points better at 75.9%. 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 2698 next to SEA to PHX

Every carrier on SEA to PHX combined arrived on time 79.2% of the time across 7,268 flights, so DL 2698 is 3 points behind it. Delta flew 1,765 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 6 points.

DL 2698 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2698thin sample	344	75.9%	56 min	0.87%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on SEA–PHX	1,765	82.6%	65 min	0.85%	B+
All carriers on SEA–PHX	7,268	79.2%	56 min	0.70%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2698 quarter by quarter

DL 2698 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 83.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 70.1%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 86 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 202583 flights83.1%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights75.3%
Jan–Mar 202681 flights70.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights74.7%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2698 did best on Saturday at 82.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 68.1%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2698 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 58% of the 4,568 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
58%
Late-arriving aircraft
24%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, 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 2,636 of the 4,568 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,568 delay minutes reported on DL 2698.

Cancellations are rare at 0.87%, 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

6.2% 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 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. 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 344 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. 344 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 75.9% on time with 0.87% cancelled over 344 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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