Flight number record

DL 2797

Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to San Antonio

Route: SLC → SAT
Departs: 20:50
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2797, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2797 lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

81.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.10%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 2797 flies

DL 2797 flies SLC to SAT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:50, used on 108 of 364 flights, with 20:55 (51 flights) and 20:30 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:50108 flights29.7%
Departs 20:5551 flights14.0%
Departs 20:3046 flights12.6%

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 20:50 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2797 runs 11 points better at 81.3%. 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 2797 next to SLC to SAT

Every carrier on SLC to SAT combined arrived on time 84.1% of the time across 1,007 flights, so DL 2797 is 3 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 2797 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2797thin sample	364	81.3%	75 min	1.10%	B
All Delta Air Lines on SLC–SAT	1,007	84.1%	65 min	0.79%	B+
All carriers on SLC–SAT	1,007	84.1%	65 min	0.79%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2797 quarter by quarter

DL 2797 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 85.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 72.5%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights72.5%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.6%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.1%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights84.3%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2797 ranged from 74.5% on Friday to 86.3% on Sunday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2797 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 70% of the 5,047 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
70%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
National Airspace System
6%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, 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 3,518 of the 5,047 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,047 delay minutes reported on DL 2797.

Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.4% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,087 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 364 flights under DL 2797 in the data flew SLC to SAT. 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. 364 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 2797

For a booking, read DL 2797 as 81.3% on time with 1.10% cancelled over 364 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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