Flight number record
DL 2708
Delta Air Lines · Ontario to Salt Lake City
- Route
- ONT → SLC
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2708, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2708 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2708's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 172 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights
Avg delay
105 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 2708 flies
DL 2708 is scheduled to leave Ontario (ONT) at 06:00 local time and reach Salt Lake City (SLC) at 08:50. That slot held for 356 of the 365 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 06:00356 flights97.5%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2708 runs 5 points better at 94.5%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2708 next to ONT to SLC
Every carrier on ONT to SLC combined arrived on time 91.1% of the time across 1,239 flights, so DL 2708 is 3 points ahead of it. Delta flew 869 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 91.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2708 | 365 | 94.5% | 105 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on ONT–SLC | 869 | 91.1% | 84 min | 1.15% | A |
| All carriers on ONT–SLC | 1,239 | 91.1% | 86 min | 0.89% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2708 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2708 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 97.7% in Jan–Mar 2026, 96.7% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.7% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights92.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights97.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.7%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2708 ranged from 90.4% on Saturday to 98.1% on Tuesday. With about 52 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 2708 runs when it is late
DL 2708 often beats the schedule: 174 of 363 completed flights, 48%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 20 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 2 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early174 flights47.9%
- Within 15 min169 flights46.6%
- 15–29 min late8 flights2.2%
- 30–59 min late2 flights0.6%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 363 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 21 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2708
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 September 2025, 7 hours 54 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2025 | 7 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 5 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 July 2026 | 3 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 August 2026 | 3 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 August 2026 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2708 runs late
Carrier accounts for 81% of the 2,094 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 81%Carrier
- 16%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 81%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,686 of the 2,094 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,094 delay minutes reported on DL 2708.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 558 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 365 flights under DL 2708 in the data flew ONT 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 2708
For a booking, DL 2708 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 94.5% on time and 0.55% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- ONT to SLC, every carrier and departure
- SLC to ONT, the return direction
- Ontario International (ONT) delay statistics
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.