Flight number record

DL 2936

Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Minneapolis

Route: SLC → MSP
Departs: 14:00
Flights: 364
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2936, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2936 earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 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 364 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2936's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 89 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights

Avg delay

68 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

5.5%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 364 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 2936 flies

DL 2936 flies SLC to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:00, used on 76 of 364 flights, with 14:07 (74 flights) and 13:59 (71 flights) next.

Departs 14:0076 flights20.9%
Departs 14:0774 flights20.3%
Departs 13:5971 flights19.5%

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 14:00 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2936 runs 14 points better at 86.2%. 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 2936 next to SLC to MSP

Every carrier on SLC to MSP combined arrived on time 86.4% of the time across 1,609 flights, so DL 2936 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 5 points.

DL 2936 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2936thin sample	364	86.2%	68 min	0.27%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on SLC–MSP	1,609	86.4%	56 min	0.31%	A+
All carriers on SLC–MSP	1,609	86.4%	56 min	0.31%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2936 quarter by quarter

DL 2936 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 91.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 78.9%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 73 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 flights86.7%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights91.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights78.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.1%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights82.3%

Scale runs 70% to 95%.

By weekday, DL 2936 did best on Saturday at 92.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 76.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2936 runs when it is late

DL 2936 often beats the schedule: 93 of 363 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 50 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.

15+ min early93 flights25.6%
Within 15 min220 flights60.6%
15–29 min late19 flights5.2%
30–59 min late11 flights3.0%
1–2 hours late11 flights3.0%
2+ hours late9 flights2.5%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 363 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

14 of 58 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. Only 6 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2936

The latest arrival of the period was on 17 June 2026, 4 hours 9 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of DL 2936 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
17 June 2026	4 hours 9 minutes	Carrier
22 February 2026	4 hours 7 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
8 March 2026	3 hours 33 minutes	Carrier
18 February 2026	3 hours 24 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
14 July 2026	2 hours 56 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why DL 2936 runs late

Carrier accounts for 55% of the 3,399 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
55%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,886 of the 3,399 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,399 delay minutes reported on DL 2936.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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

5.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 991 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 364 flights under DL 2936 in the data flew SLC to MSP. 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. 364 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 2936

For a booking, DL 2936 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.2% on time and 0.27% 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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