Flight number record

DL 2716

Delta Air Lines · Milwaukee to Salt Lake City

Route: MKE → SLC
Departs: 07:30
Flights: 347
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

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

DL 2716 earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 347 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2716's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 70 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights

Avg delay

86 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.86%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

6.1%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 347 flights between September 2025 and August 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.

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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 121 of 347 flights, with 07:20 (40 flights) and 07:45 (38 flights) next.

Departs 07:30121 flights34.9%
Departs 07:2040 flights11.5%
Departs 07:4538 flights11.0%

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 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 5 points worse at 84.3%. 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 2716 next to MKE to SLC

Every carrier on MKE to SLC combined arrived on time 83.6% of the time across 363 flights, so DL 2716 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 2716 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2716thin sample	347	84.3%	86 min	0.86%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on MKE–SLCthin sample	347	84.3%	86 min	0.86%	B+
All carriers on MKE–SLCthin sample	363	83.6%	80 min	0.83%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2716 quarter by quarter

DL 2716 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 96.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.9%, a swing of 21 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 202529 flights—
Oct–Dec 202579 flights79.5%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights75.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights96.8%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2716 did best on Tuesday at 92.0% on time and worst on Monday at 79.6%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2716 runs when it is late

DL 2716 often beats the schedule: 107 of 343 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 54 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.

15+ min early107 flights31.2%
Within 15 min182 flights53.1%
15–29 min late16 flights4.7%
30–59 min late17 flights5.0%
1–2 hours late10 flights2.9%
2+ hours late11 flights3.2%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 343 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

5 of 41 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. In the other direction, 18 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 SLC.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2716

The latest arrival of the period was on 17 December 2025, 12 hours 4 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.

The latest arrivals of DL 2716 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
17 December 2025	12 hours 4 minutes	Carrier
13 April 2026	5 hours 57 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
4 December 2025	4 hours 4 minutes	Carrier
30 November 2025	4 hours 1 minute	Extreme weather
16 February 2026	3 hours 44 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 2716 runs late

Carrier accounts for 63% of the 4,651 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
63%
National Airspace System
17%
Late-arriving aircraft
11%
Extreme weather
9%

The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,919 of the 4,651 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,651 delay minutes reported on DL 2716.

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

6.1% 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 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.

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 84.3% 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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