Flight number record
DL 2882
Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Kansas City
- Route
- SLC → MCI
- Departs
- 09:55
- Flights
- 302
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 302 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2882's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 114 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 300 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.33%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 302 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2882 flies
DL 2882 flies SLC to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:55, used on 109 of 302 flights, with 10:34 (56 flights) and 10:00 (41 flights) next.
- Departs 09:55109 flights36.1%
- Departs 10:3456 flights18.5%
- Departs 10:0041 flights13.6%
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 09:55 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 2882 runs 5 points better at 88.7%. 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 2882 next to SLC to MCI
Every carrier on SLC to MCI combined arrived on time 85.4% of the time across 1,005 flights, so DL 2882 is 3 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2882thin sample | 302 | 88.7% | 67 min | 0.33% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on SLC–MCI | 1,005 | 85.4% | 56 min | 0.90% | A+ |
| All carriers on SLC–MCI | 1,005 | 85.4% | 56 min | 0.90% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2882 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2882 held fairly steady: 87.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 92.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 83.6% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202628 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights83.6%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2882 did best on Friday at 95.2% on time and worst on Monday at 79.5%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2882 runs when it is late
DL 2882 often beats the schedule: 93 of 300 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 34 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early93 flights31.0%
- Within 15 min173 flights57.7%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.3%
- 30–59 min late15 flights5.0%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.7%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 300 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 39 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2882
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 July 2026, 5 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 July 2026 | 5 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 July 2026 | 3 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 November 2025 | 2 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 November 2025 | 2 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 July 2026 | 1 hour 45 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2882 runs late
Carrier accounts for 56% of the 2,289 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,289 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 35 to one. The split is drawn from 2,289 delay minutes reported on DL 2882.
Cancellations are rare at 0.33%, 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 4.0% 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 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.
DL 2882 is not only a SLC to MCI flight. It also flew MCI to SLC (299 flights, 83.1% 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. 302 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCI to SLCthin sample | 299 | 83.1% | 65 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: 88.7% on time and 0.33% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- SLC to MCI, every carrier and departure
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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.