Flight number record
DL 698
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Salt Lake City
- Route
- DTW → SLC
- Departs
- 08:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 698, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 698 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 698's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 106 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 698 flies
DL 698 flies DTW to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 125 of 365 flights, with 08:20 (66 flights) and 08:25 (61 flights) next.
- Departs 08:00125 flights34.2%
- Departs 08:2066 flights18.1%
- Departs 08:2561 flights16.7%
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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 698 runs 4 points better at 87.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 698 next to DTW to SLC
Every carrier on DTW to SLC combined arrived on time 79.6% of the time across 1,535 flights, so DL 698 is 8 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,533 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 698 | 365 | 87.9% | 69 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–SLC | 1,533 | 79.6% | 60 min | 0.13% | B+ |
| All carriers on DTW–SLC | 1,535 | 79.6% | 60 min | 0.13% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 698 quarter by quarter
DL 698 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.4%, a swing of 18 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 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights91.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights94.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights87.1%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 698 did best on Tuesday at 94.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 80.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 698 runs when it is late
DL 698 often beats the schedule: 94 of 363 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 44 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early94 flights25.9%
- Within 15 min225 flights62.0%
- 15–29 min late18 flights5.0%
- 30–59 min late13 flights3.6%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights1.9%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 363 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 33 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 698
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 January 2026, 7 hours behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 January 2026 | 7 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 January 2026 | 5 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 February 2026 | 3 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 December 2025 | 3 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 August 2026 | 2 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 698 runs late
Carrier accounts for 64% of the 3,048 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,958 of the 3,048 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,048 delay minutes reported on DL 698.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 1,481 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 365 flights under DL 698 in the data flew DTW to SLC. 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 698
For a booking, DL 698 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.9% on time and 0.55% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- DTW to SLC, every carrier and departure
- SLC to DTW, the return direction
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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 ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.