Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL2260
Austin (AUS) to Las Vegas (LAS) · scheduled 3:25 PM – 4:26 PM
How DL2260 performs
786 operations, January 2024 – July 2026.
DL2260 arrived on time 73.4% of the time, against 76.1% for all AUS → LAS flights, so this departure is 2.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 1.0 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 786 operations, January 2024 – July 2026 · If DL2260 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL2260 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2260 | 73.4% | 0.64% | -4 min | 10.4% | 786 |
| Delta Air Lines on AUS → LAS | 72.4% | 0.58% | -3 min | 10.8% | 1,026 |
| All AUS → LAS flights | 76.1% | 0.49% | -3 min | 7.4% | 9,725 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 2024 – July 2026
Why DL2260 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DL2260 on AUS → LAS. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering January 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL2260 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying DL2260 came in 15 or more minutes late on 18% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into AUS just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 661 of 781 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 |
|---|---|
| DL2260 | 18% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
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 45 to 59 minutes. How often DL2260’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
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 January 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves AUS late, does that still matter by the time it reaches LAS?
DL2260 pushes back an average of 18.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAS an average of 14.2 minutes late. The 4.0 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 16.9 minutes on the taxiways at AUS is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at LAS, DL2260 spends 8.0 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 about what any arrival at LAS spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
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 LAS. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 20,016 departures from AUS scheduled in the clock hour DL2260 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at LAS (569,643 flights), not just DL2260’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · January 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves AUS
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. DL2260 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 20,016 departures from AUS are scheduled in the 3 PM–4 PM hour over the period, against 272,521 across the whole day.
DL2260 is scheduled out of AUS at 3:25 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from AUS in that hour arrive on time 71.3% of the time against 78.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 6.7 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from AUS 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 · January 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL2260 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAS→AUS Las Vegas to Austin | January 8, 2024 – July 31, 2026 | 773 | 71.2% |
| BOS→ORD Boston to Chicago | June 6, 2024 | 1 | — |
| DTW→IAD Detroit to Washington | May 7, 2024 – June 5, 2024 | 30 | — |
| ATL→CLT Atlanta to Charlotte | July 1, 2023 – December 22, 2023 | 174 | 85.5% |
| CLT→ATL Charlotte to Atlanta | September 5, 2023 – December 6, 2023 | 63 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL2260 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.
62 min late
against a median of 4 min early
DL2260 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 4 min early, but the worst tenth are 66 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 786 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering January 2024 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 786 records of DL2260 operating AUS → LAS, 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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