Flight number record
DL 2796
Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- SLC → DFW
- Departs
- 17:35
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2796, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2796 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
97 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.37%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2796 flies
DL 2796 flies SLC to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:35, used on 105 of 365 flights, with 17:40 (86 flights) and 17:30 (59 flights) next.
- Departs 17:35105 flights28.8%
- Departs 17:4086 flights23.6%
- Departs 17:3059 flights16.2%
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 17:35 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2796 runs 10 points better at 77.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2796 next to SLC to DFW
Every carrier on SLC to DFW combined arrived on time 79.8% of the time across 3,870 flights, so DL 2796 is 2 points behind it. Delta flew 1,458 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2796 | 365 | 77.9% | 97 min | 1.37% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on SLC–DFW | 1,458 | 81.6% | 64 min | 1.23% | B |
| All carriers on SLC–DFW | 3,870 | 79.8% | 89 min | 2.20% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2796 quarter by quarter
DL 2796 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 67.8%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 73 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 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights67.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights72.6%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
By weekday, DL 2796 did best on Wednesday at 88.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 67.3%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2796 runs when it is late
DL 2796 often beats the schedule: 104 of 357 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 79 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 37 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early104 flights29.1%
- Within 15 min174 flights48.7%
- 15–29 min late26 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights4.8%
- 2+ hours late20 flights5.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 357 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 76 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2796
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 May 2026, 17 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across May, April, February and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2026 | 17 hours 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 2 April 2026 | 5 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 April 2026 | 4 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 February 2026 | 4 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 July 2026 | 4 hours 8 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2796 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 7,629 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Carrier
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,001 of the 7,629 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,629 delay minutes reported on DL 2796.
Cancellations sit at 1.37% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.82%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
10.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 989 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 2796 in the data flew SLC to DFW. 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
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For a booking, read DL 2796 as 77.9% on time with 1.37% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- SLC to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to SLC, the return direction
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- American Airlines 1456 on the same route63.2%
- Delta Air Lines 2798 on the same route86.2%
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
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- Delta Air Lines on-time record
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.