Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL2568
Los Angeles (LAX) to San Antonio (SAT) · scheduled 9:55 AM – 2:43 PM
How DL2568 performs
621 operations, June 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on LAX → SAT, DL2568 averaged about 5 operations a week (621 in 816 days, cancelled ones included).
DL2568 arrived on time 88.9% of the time, against 81.7% for all LAX → SAT flights, so this departure is 7.2 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 5.5 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 621 operations, June 2024 – August 2026 · If DL2568 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where DL2568 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2568 | 88.9% | 0.64% | -7 min | 4.4% | 621 |
| Delta Air Lines on LAX → SAT | 83.4% | 0.41% | -7 min | 6.5% | 2,181 |
| All LAX → SAT flights | 81.7% | 0.37% | -6 min | 6.0% | 6,470 |
DL2568 cancelled 4 of 621 operations (0.64%), close to the 0.37% for LAX → SAT.
4.4% of DL2568’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 6.0% across LAX → SAT, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
Why DL2568 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
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 DL2568 on LAX → SAT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL2568 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying DL2568 came in 15 or more minutes late on 9% 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.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into LAX: 583 of 617 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| DL2568 | 9% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
57 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 45 to 59 minutes. How often DL2568’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves LAX late, does that still matter by the time it reaches SAT?
DL2568 pushes back an average of 6.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at SAT an average of 2.2 minutes late. The 4.1 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 18.3 minutes on the taxiways at LAX, 1.2 minutes shorter than a typical LAX departure in the same hour.
On arrival at SAT, DL2568 spends 7.3 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 SAT arrival (4.8 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 51,898 LAX departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 130,525 arrivals at SAT. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves LAX
DL2568 has one departure time, 9:55 AM, so this is what that hour at LAX is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 51,898 departures from LAX are scheduled in the 9 AM–10 AM hour over the period, against 611,647 across the whole day.
DL2568 is scheduled out of LAX at 9:55 AM, in the 9 AM–10 AM bank. Departures from LAX in that hour arrive on time 83.4% of the time against 81.3% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour DL2568 leaves in is an ordinary one for LAX and explains nothing about its record either way.
Both airport figures cover every destination from LAX, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL2568 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. DL2568 also served these 9 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAT→LAX San Antonio to Los Angeles | January 6, 2025 – May 6, 2026 | 91 | 89.0% |
| MCO→JFK Orlando to New York | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| ROA→ATL Roanoke to Atlanta | April 9, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 28 | — |
| MSP→MCO Minneapolis to Orlando | January 8, 2024 – March 6, 2024 | 32 | — |
| ORD→BOS Chicago to Boston | November 5, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 41 | — |
| ATL→OKC Atlanta to Oklahoma City | September 5, 2023 – October 31, 2023 | 38 | — |
| OKC→ATL Oklahoma City to Atlanta | September 5, 2023 – October 31, 2023 | 38 | — |
| SFO→MSP San Francisco to Minneapolis | October 9–27, 2023 | 19 | — |
| BUF→JFK Buffalo to New York | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 59 | — |
The figures above describe only LAX → SAT, the route DL2568 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
19 min late
against a median of 7 min early
Percentiles over 621 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2568 this flight | Delta Air Lines | 88.9% | 7 min early | 621 |
| DL2686 | Delta Air Lines | 81.4% | 9 min early | 715 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, DL2568 has the highest on-time rate. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 621 records of DL2568 operating LAX → SAT, 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 reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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