Flight number record

DL 2914

Delta Air Lines · Seattle to Los Angeles

Route: SEA → LAX
Departs: 12:45
Flights: 327
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

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

DL 2914 earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 327 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2914's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 67 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 325 completed flights

Avg delay

44 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.61%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

3.1%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 327 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 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 12:35 (57 flights) and 12:40 (53 flights) next.

Departs 12:4577 flights23.5%
Departs 12:3557 flights17.4%
Departs 12:4053 flights16.2%

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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 78.3%, and DL 2914 runs 6 points better at 84.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

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Against the route

DL 2914 next to SEA to LAX

Every carrier on SEA to LAX combined arrived on time 82.0% of the time across 7,536 flights, so DL 2914 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,229 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 3 points.

DL 2914 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2914thin sample	327	84.0%	44 min	0.61%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on SEA–LAX	2,229	81.6%	59 min	0.58%	B+
All carriers on SEA–LAX	7,536	82.0%	59 min	0.81%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2914 quarter by quarter

DL 2914 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 62.0%, a swing of 31 points on roughly 65 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 202530 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights83.7%
Jan–Mar 202652 flights62.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.3%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.5%

Scale runs 55% to 100%.

By weekday, DL 2914 ranged from 77.8% on Friday to 89.1% on Saturday. With about 47 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2914 runs when it is late

DL 2914 often beats the schedule: 97 of 325 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 27 of the 52 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 10 reached an hour or more.

15+ min early97 flights29.8%
Within 15 min176 flights54.2%
15–29 min late27 flights8.3%
30–59 min late15 flights4.6%
1–2 hours late7 flights2.2%
2+ hours late3 flights0.9%

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Share of 325 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

12 of 49 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2914

The latest arrival of the period was on 17 November 2025, 3 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across November, December, July and January, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of DL 2914 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
17 November 2025	3 hours 4 minutes	National Airspace System
9 December 2025	2 hours 36 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
5 July 2026	2 hours 11 minutes	Carrier
25 January 2026	1 hour 48 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
27 January 2026	1 hour 46 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 2914 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 2,311 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
36%
Carrier
36%
National Airspace System
24%
Extreme weather
4%

36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,311 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 2,311 delay minutes reported on DL 2914.

Cancellations are rare at 0.61%, 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 3.1% 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 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.

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 84.0% 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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