Flight number record
DL 2762
Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to San Francisco
- Route
- SLC → SFO
- Departs
- 17:10
- Flights
- 255
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2762, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2762 draws a D. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 255 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2762 runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 129 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 252 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.18%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
11.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 255 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When DL 2762 flies
DL 2762 flies SLC to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:10, used on 64 of 255 flights, with 20:59 (43 flights) and 20:50 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 17:1064 flights25.1%
- Departs 20:5943 flights16.9%
- Departs 20:5040 flights15.7%
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 17:10 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2762 runs 4 points worse at 64.7%. 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 2762 next to SLC to SFO
Every carrier on SLC to SFO combined arrived on time 69.0% of the time across 3,472 flights, so DL 2762 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 1,706 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 67.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2762thin sample | 255 | 64.7% | 56 min | 1.18% | D |
| All Delta Air Lines on SLC–SFO | 1,706 | 67.4% | 52 min | 0.88% | C+ |
| All carriers on SLC–SFO | 3,472 | 69.0% | 64 min | 0.95% | C+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2762 quarter by quarter
DL 2762 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 90.7% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 39.7%, a swing of 51 points on roughly 64 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 202560 flights78.3%
- Oct–Dec 202577 flights63.2%
- Jan–Mar 202644 flights90.7%
- Apr–Jun 202674 flights39.7%
Scale runs 30% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2762 did best on Tuesday at 75.6% on time and worst on Thursday at 53.7%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2762 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 50% of the 5,005 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.
- 50%National Airspace System
- 25%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 0%Extreme weather
50% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,496 minutes out of 5,005, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 5,005 delay minutes reported on DL 2762.
Cancellations sit at 1.18% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 599 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.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including SFO to SLC (52) and LAS to JFK (16), but none flew often enough under DL 2762 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SLC to SFO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 255 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 2762
For a booking, read DL 2762 as 64.7% on time with 1.18% cancelled over 255 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.