Flight number record

DL 2993

Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Kansas City

Route: SLC → MCI
Departs: 20:59
Flights: 337
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2993, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2993 lands a B, 4 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 a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 337 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2993's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 43 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

81.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 331 completed flights

Avg delay

72 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.19%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 337 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 2993 flies

DL 2993 flies SLC to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:59, used on 41 of 337 flights, with 17:20 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:5941 flights12.2%
Departs 17:2037 flights11.0%

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 20:59 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2993 runs 11 points better at 81.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 2993 next to SLC to MCI

Every carrier on SLC to MCI combined arrived on time 85.3% of the time across 1,012 flights, so DL 2993 is 3 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 2993 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2993thin sample	337	81.9%	72 min	1.19%	B
All Delta Air Lines on SLC–MCI	1,012	85.3%	60 min	1.09%	A
All carriers on SLC–MCI	1,012	85.3%	60 min	1.09%	A
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2993 quarter by quarter

DL 2993 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 92.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 73.6%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 84 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 202590 flights73.6%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights81.1%
Jan–Mar 202666 flights92.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.1%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2993 did best on Wednesday at 89.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 77.8%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2993 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 68% of the 4,344 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
68%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
National Airspace System
4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 68%, 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 2,939 of the 4,344 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,344 delay minutes reported on DL 2993.

Cancellations sit at 1.19% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.59%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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 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. 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 337 flights under DL 2993 in the data flew SLC to MCI. 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. 337 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 2993

For a booking, read DL 2993 as 81.9% on time with 1.19% cancelled over 337 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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