Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL1009
Newark (EWR) to Salt Lake City (SLC) · scheduled 7:00 AM – 10:15 AM
How DL1009 performs
841 operations, March 2024 – July 2026.
DL1009 arrived on time 78.3% of the time, against 77.2% for all EWR → SLC flights, so this departure is 1.1 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 3.2 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 841 operations, March 2024 – July 2026 · If DL1009 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL1009 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL1009 | 78.3% | 1.19% | -1 min | 6.0% | 841 |
| Delta Air Lines on EWR → SLC | 75.1% | 1.74% | -2 min | 10.2% | 2,189 |
| All EWR → SLC flights | 77.2% | 1.62% | -5 min | 9.0% | 3,948 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026
Why DL1009 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL1009 on EWR → SLC. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL1009 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, DL1009 pushed back an average of 20 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 5 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into EWR just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 746 of 831 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| DL1009 | 28% | 34% | 10% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 68% | 9% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often DL1009’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often DL1009 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves EWR late, does that still matter by the time it reaches SLC?
DL1009 pushes back an average of 10.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at SLC an average of 8.8 minutes late. The 2.0 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. Its 24.2 minutes on the taxiways at EWR is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at SLC, DL1009 spends 9.6 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is 2.5 minutes longer than a typical SLC arrival (7.1 min).
Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached SLC. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 30,783 departures from EWR scheduled in the clock hour DL1009 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at SLC (355,118 flights), not just DL1009’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves EWR
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. DL1009 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 30,783 departures from EWR are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 387,621 across the whole day.
DL1009 is scheduled out of EWR at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from EWR in that hour arrive on time 86.4% of the time against 77.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.7 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from EWR to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does DL1009 run worse on particular days?
Thursday is historically the most reliable day and Saturday the least, a gap of 15.0 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · March 2024 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes DL1009 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| LGA→PBI New York to West Palm Beach | July 1, 2023 – June 6, 2024 | 222 | 92.1% |
| PBI→LGA West Palm Beach to New York | July 1, 2023 – June 6, 2024 | 199 | 85.1% |
| DTW→RSW Detroit to Fort Myers | January 8, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 62 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL1009 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
34 min late
against a median of 1 min early
Percentiles over 841 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering March 2024 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 841 records of DL1009 operating EWR → SLC, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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