Flight number record

DL 2936

Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Minneapolis

Route: SLC → MSP
Departs: 14:07
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 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 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights

Avg delay

63 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When DL 2936 flies

DL 2936 flies SLC to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:07, used on 74 of 364 flights, with 13:59 (71 flights) and 13:55 (65 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:0774 flights20.3%
Departs 13:5971 flights19.5%
Departs 13:5565 flights17.9%

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 14:07 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2936 runs 13 points better at 85.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2936 next to SLC to MSP

Every carrier on SLC to MSP combined arrived on time 86.5% of the time across 1,589 flights, so DL 2936 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 4 points.

DL 2936 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2936thin sample	364	85.4%	63 min	0.27%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on SLC–MSP	1,589	86.5%	54 min	0.25%	A+
All carriers on SLC–MSP	1,589	86.5%	54 min	0.25%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 91 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 flights80.4%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights91.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights78.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.1%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2936 ranged from 80.4% on Sunday to 88.5% on Saturday. With about 52 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 2936 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 60% of the 3,312 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
60%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
National Airspace System
8%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, 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 1,993 of the 3,312 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,312 delay minutes reported on DL 2936.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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 4.4% 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 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. 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.

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: 85.4% 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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