Flight number record

DL 2993

Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Kansas City

Route: SLC → MCI
Departs: 20:50
Flights: 338
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

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

DL 2993 lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 338 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2993's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 56 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 334 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.59%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

5.7%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 338 flights between September 2025 and August 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.

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Schedule

When DL 2993 flies

DL 2993 flies SLC to MCI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:50, used on 74 of 338 flights, with 20:59 (41 flights) and 17:20 (37 flights) next.

Departs 20:5074 flights21.9%
Departs 20:5941 flights12.1%
Departs 17:2037 flights10.9%

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 20:50 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2993 runs 13 points better at 82.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

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Against the route

DL 2993 next to SLC to MCI

Every carrier on SLC to MCI combined arrived on time 85.4% of the time across 1,005 flights, so DL 2993 is 3 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

DL 2993 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2993thin sample	338	82.9%	60 min	0.59%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on SLC–MCI	1,005	85.4%	56 min	0.90%	A+
All carriers on SLC–MCI	1,005	85.4%	56 min	0.90%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	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 2026 at 71.7%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 68 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 flights90.0%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights81.1%
Jan–Mar 202666 flights92.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights83.1%
Jul–Sep 202661 flights71.7%

Scale runs 65% to 100%.

By weekday, DL 2993 ranged from 78.3% on Friday to 87.8% on Wednesday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2993 runs when it is late

DL 2993 often beats the schedule: 115 of 334 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 57 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.

15+ min early115 flights34.4%
Within 15 min162 flights48.5%
15–29 min late16 flights4.8%
30–59 min late22 flights6.6%
1–2 hours late11 flights3.3%
2+ hours late8 flights2.4%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 334 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

15 of 69 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 2993

The latest arrival of the period was on 15 November 2025, 3 hours 38 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.

The latest arrivals of DL 2993 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
15 November 2025	3 hours 38 minutes	Carrier
30 November 2025	3 hours 19 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
29 July 2026	3 hours 8 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
15 August 2026	2 hours 37 minutes	Carrier
15 June 2026	2 hours 27 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why DL 2993 runs late

Carrier accounts for 57% of the 3,414 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
57%
Late-arriving aircraft
39%
National Airspace System
4%

39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,414 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 39 to one. The split is drawn from 3,414 delay minutes reported on DL 2993.

Cancellations are rare at 0.59%, 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

5.7% 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 about 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.

Every one of the 338 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. 338 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 82.9% on time with 0.59% cancelled over 338 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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