Flight number record
DL 2876
Delta Air Lines · Cincinnati to Salt Lake City
- Route
- CVG → SLC
- Departs
- 08:05
- Flights
- 357
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2876, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2876 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 357 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2876's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 134 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.56%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 357 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 2876 flies
DL 2876 flies CVG to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:05, used on 80 of 357 flights, with 07:12 (52 flights) and 08:15 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 08:0580 flights22.4%
- Departs 07:1252 flights14.6%
- Departs 08:1537 flights10.4%
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 08:05 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2876 runs 7 points better at 90.7%. 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 2876 next to CVG to SLC
Every carrier on CVG to SLC combined arrived on time 85.5% of the time across 817 flights, so DL 2876 is 5 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2876thin sample | 357 | 90.7% | 72 min | 0.56% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on CVG–SLC | 817 | 85.5% | 68 min | 0.49% | A+ |
| All carriers on CVG–SLC | 817 | 85.5% | 68 min | 0.49% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2876 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2876 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 93.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 91.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202525 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights90.0%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights87.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.9%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2876 ranged from 88.0% on Tuesday to 93.8% on Saturday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2876 runs when it is late
DL 2876 often beats the schedule: 95 of 354 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 18 of the 33 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 7 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early95 flights26.8%
- Within 15 min226 flights63.8%
- 15–29 min late18 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.3%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.6%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
3 of 20 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2876
The latest arrival of the period was on 24 January 2026, 8 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 24 January 2026 | 8 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 October 2025 | 6 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 June 2026 | 5 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 July 2026 | 3 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 2 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2876 runs late
Carrier accounts for 77% of the 2,373 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 77%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 77%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,838 of the 2,373 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,373 delay minutes reported on DL 2876.
Cancellations are rare at 0.56%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 1,450 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 357 flights under DL 2876 in the data flew CVG 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. 357 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 2876
For a booking, DL 2876 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.7% on time and 0.56% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- CVG to SLC, every carrier and departure
- SLC to CVG, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2149 on the same route78.3%
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) delay statistics
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a 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.