Flight number record
DL 892
Delta Air Lines · New York to Salt Lake City
- Route
- JFK → SLC
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 892, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 892 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 892's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 98 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.47%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 892 flies
DL 892 flies JFK to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 110 of 365 flights, with 06:45 (77 flights) and 06:15 (60 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00110 flights30.1%
- Departs 06:4577 flights21.1%
- Departs 06:1560 flights16.4%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 892 runs 2 points worse at 87.1%. 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 892 next to JFK to SLC
Every carrier on JFK to SLC combined arrived on time 76.4% of the time across 1,929 flights, so DL 892 is 11 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,536 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 892 | 365 | 87.1% | 63 min | 2.47% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on JFK–SLC | 1,536 | 78.6% | 66 min | 1.95% | B |
| All carriers on JFK–SLC | 1,929 | 76.4% | 65 min | 2.44% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 892 quarter by quarter
DL 892 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 79.8%, a swing of 17 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.3%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 892 did best on Wednesday 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 892 runs when it is late
DL 892 often beats the schedule: 155 of 356 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 46 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early155 flights43.5%
- Within 15 min155 flights43.5%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.2%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights2.5%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 356 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 32 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 22 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at SLC.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 892
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 June 2026, 14 hours 11 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 June 2026 | 14 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 August 2026 | 4 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 February 2026 | 2 hours 16 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 8 February 2026 | 1 hour 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 August 2026 | 1 hour 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 892 runs late
Carrier accounts for 66% of the 2,903 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 66%Carrier
- 31%National Airspace System
- 3%Late-arriving aircraft
- 0%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 66%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,913 of the 2,903 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,903 delay minutes reported on DL 892.
Cancellations sit at 2.47% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.4% 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.
At 1,990 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 892 in the data flew JFK 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
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For a booking, read DL 892 as 87.1% on time with 2.47% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.