Flight number record

DL 2882

Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Kansas City

Route: SLC → MCI
Departs: 09:55
Flights: 303
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2882, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2882 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 303 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2882's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 121 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 301 completed flights

Avg delay

55 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.33%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 303 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When DL 2882 flies

DL 2882 flies SLC to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:55, used on 171 of 303 flights, with 10:00 (41 flights) and 10:15 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:55171 flights56.4%
Departs 10:0041 flights13.5%
Departs 10:1536 flights11.9%

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 09:55 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2882 runs 6 points better at 89.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 2882 next to SLC to MCI

Every carrier on SLC to MCI combined arrived on time 85.3% of the time across 1,012 flights, so DL 2882 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

DL 2882 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2882thin sample	303	89.7%	55 min	0.33%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on SLC–MCI	1,012	85.3%	60 min	1.09%	A
All carriers on SLC–MCI	1,012	85.3%	60 min	1.09%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2882 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2882 held fairly steady: 89.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.0% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 92.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights89.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
Jan–Mar 202628 flights—
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2882 did best on Saturday at 97.7% on time and worst on Thursday at 83.7%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2882 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 62% of the 1,709 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
62%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
National Airspace System
8%

The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, 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 1,051 of the 1,709 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,709 delay minutes reported on DL 2882.

Cancellations are rare at 0.33%, below the national 1.81% 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 3.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 920 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.

DL 2882 is not only a SLC to MCI flight. It also flew MCI to SLC (300 flights, 84.8% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 303 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.

Other routes flown as DL 2882
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MCI to SLCthin sample	300	84.8%	56 min	0.33%	B+

What to do with this

Booking DL 2882

For a booking, DL 2882 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.7% on time and 0.33% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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