Flight number record

DL 2914

Delta Air Lines · Seattle to Los Angeles

Route: SEA → LAX
Departs: 12:45
Flights: 327
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2914, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2914 lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 327 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2914's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 61 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 325 completed flights

Avg delay

52 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.61%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 327 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 2914 flies

DL 2914 flies SEA to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:45, used on 77 of 327 flights, with 12:15 (66 flights) and 12:40 (53 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:4577 flights23.5%
Departs 12:1566 flights20.2%
Departs 12:4053 flights16.2%

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 12:45 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2914 runs 5 points better at 83.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2914 next to SEA to LAX

Every carrier on SEA to LAX combined arrived on time 83.4% of the time across 7,428 flights, so DL 2914 is about level with it. Delta flew 2,225 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

DL 2914 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2914thin sample	327	83.7%	52 min	0.61%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on SEA–LAX	2,225	84.5%	59 min	0.67%	B+
All carriers on SEA–LAX	7,428	83.4%	59 min	0.92%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2914 quarter by quarter

DL 2914 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 92.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 62.0%, a swing of 30 points on roughly 82 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 flights87.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights83.7%
Jan–Mar 202652 flights62.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%

Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2914 ranged from 79.2% on Tuesday to 87.2% on Wednesday. With about 47 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 2914 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 49% of the 2,748 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
49%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
National Airspace System
18%

The largest share of delay minutes, 49%, 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 1,347 of the 2,748 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,748 delay minutes reported on DL 2914.

Cancellations are rare at 0.61%, 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 3.1% 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 954 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.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including DTW to GSP (5) and GSP to DTW (5), but none flew often enough under DL 2914 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SEA to LAX only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 327 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 2914

For a booking, read DL 2914 as 83.7% on time with 0.61% cancelled over 327 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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