Flight number record

DL 885

Delta Air Lines · Salt Lake City to Atlanta

Route: SLC → ATL
Departs: 11:00
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 885, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 885 lands a B+, 6 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 365 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 885's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 55 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights

Avg delay

74 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.82%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 885 flies

DL 885 flies SLC to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 147 of 365 flights, with 11:35 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:00147 flights40.3%
Departs 11:3541 flights11.2%

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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 885 runs 4 points better at 83.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 885 next to SLC to ATL

Every carrier on SLC to ATL combined arrived on time 87.3% of the time across 2,972 flights, so DL 885 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 2,966 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

DL 885 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 885	365	83.1%	74 min	0.82%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on SLC–ATL	2,966	87.4%	63 min	0.54%	A+
All carriers on SLC–ATL	2,972	87.3%	65 min	0.54%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 885 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 885 held fairly steady: 86.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 84.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 81.3% 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 flights86.8%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights84.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights81.3%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 885 did best on Wednesday at 92.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 78.4%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 885 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 66% of the 4,505 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
66%
Late-arriving aircraft
15%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
9%

The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, 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 2,970 of the 4,505 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,505 delay minutes reported on DL 885.

Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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

5.8% 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.

At 1,590 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

Every one of the 365 flights under DL 885 in the data flew SLC to ATL. 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 885

For a booking, read DL 885 as 83.1% on time with 0.82% cancelled over 365 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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