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Flight number record

DL 2995

Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Seattle

Route
SLC → SEA
Departs
11:30
Flights
365
Period
July 2025 to June 2026
A+GRADE

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2995, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2995 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2995's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 114 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

Key figures

On time

89.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.55%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 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 2995 flies

DL 2995 flies SLC to SEA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:30, used on 75 of 365 flights, with 11:11 (58 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

  • Departs 11:3075 flights20.5%
  • Departs 11:1158 flights15.9%

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 11:30 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2995 runs 10 points better at 89.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2995 next to SLC to SEA

Every carrier on SLC to SEA combined arrived on time 80.2% of the time across 4,108 flights, so DL 2995 is 9 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,222 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

DL 2995 against its route and carrier
Compared withFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
DL 299536589.0%60 min0.55%A+
All Delta Air Lines on SLC–SEA2,22283.3%54 min0.54%B+
All carriers on SLC–SEA4,10880.2%53 min0.97%B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network1,038,57081.6%71 min1.62%B

Across the year

DL 2995 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2995 held fairly steady: 89.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 93.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

  • Jul–Sep 202592 flights89.0%
  • Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
  • Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.5%
  • Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.4%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2995 ranged from 82.4% on Saturday to 94.3% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

On-time rate by day of the week92.3Mon94.3Tue86.5Wed92.3Thu84.3Fri82.4Sat90.4Sun
Monday: 92.3 percent on time. Tuesday: 94.3 percent on time. Wednesday: 86.5 percent on time. Thursday: 92.3 percent on time. Friday: 84.3 percent on time. Saturday: 82.4 percent on time. Sunday: 90.4 percent on time

Delay causes

Why DL 2995 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 46% of the 2,384 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
    46%
  • Late-arriving aircraft
    23%
  • National Airspace System
    19%
  • Extreme weather
    13%

Extreme weather accounts for 13% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,384 delay minutes reported on DL 2995.

Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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 2.8% 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 689 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 365 flights under DL 2995 in the data flew SLC to SEA. 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. 365 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 2995

For a booking, DL 2995 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.0% on time and 0.55% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

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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.