Flight number record

DL 2716

Delta Air Lines · Milwaukee to Salt Lake City

Route: MKE → SLC
Departs: 07:30
Flights: 347
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2716, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2716 lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 347 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2716's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 58 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights

Avg delay

93 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.86%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 347 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2716 flies

DL 2716 flies MKE to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:30, used on 113 of 347 flights, with 07:20 (46 flights) and 07:45 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:30113 flights32.6%
Departs 07:2046 flights13.3%
Departs 07:4538 flights11.0%

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 07:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2716 runs 6 points worse at 83.4%. 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 2716 next to MKE to SLC

Every carrier on MKE to SLC combined arrived on time 82.7% of the time across 363 flights, so DL 2716 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

DL 2716 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2716thin sample	347	83.4%	93 min	0.86%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on MKE–SLCthin sample	347	83.4%	93 min	0.86%	B+
All carriers on MKE–SLCthin sample	363	82.7%	87 min	0.83%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2716 quarter by quarter

DL 2716 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 89.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.9%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 87 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 202591 flights89.0%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights79.5%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights75.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2716 did best on Tuesday at 92.2% on time and worst on Monday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2716 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 67% of the 5,315 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
67%
National Airspace System
15%
Late-arriving aircraft
9%
Extreme weather
8%

The largest share of delay minutes, 67%, 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 3,572 of the 5,315 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,315 delay minutes reported on DL 2716.

Cancellations are rare at 0.86%, 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

7.0% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,247 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 347 flights under DL 2716 in the data flew MKE 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. 347 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 2716

For a booking, read DL 2716 as 83.4% on time with 0.86% cancelled over 347 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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