Flight profile · Delta Air Lines
DL736
New Orleans (MSY) to Salt Lake City (SLC) · scheduled 2:00 PM – 4:40 PM
How DL736 performs
604 operations, December 2024 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on MSY → SLC, DL736 averaged about one operation a day or more (604 in 619 days, cancelled ones included).
DL736 arrived on time 91.5% of the time, against 88.8% for all MSY → SLC flights, so this departure is 2.7 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’ own flights on this route it is 2.7 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 604 operations, December 2024 – August 2026 · If DL736 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How DL736 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight stays close to typical even on its worst days, a smaller gap than 91% of 12,358 comparable flight numbers.
A typical arrival is 12 min early, and the worst tenth are only 22 minutes worse than that.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · December 2024 – August 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
Where DL736 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL736 | 91.5% | 0.50% | -12 min | 3.5% | 604 |
| Delta Air Lines on MSY → SLC | 88.8% | 0.45% | -11 min | 3.9% | 1,344 |
| All MSY → SLC flights | 88.8% | 0.45% | -11 min | 3.9% | 1,344 |
DL736 cancelled 3 of 604 operations (0.50%), close to the 0.45% for MSY → SLC.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · December 2024 – August 2026
Why DL736 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 DL736 on MSY → SLC. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering December 2024 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies DL736 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying DL736 came in 15 or more minutes late on 7% 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 MSY: 594 of 601 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 |
|---|---|
| DL736 | 7% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
66 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 60 to 89 minutes. How often DL736’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 December 2024 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MSY late, does that still matter by the time it reaches SLC?
DL736 pushes back an average of 3.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at SLC an average of 5.0 minutes early. The 8.5 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so on average a late pushback on this flight is made up before the gate. Its 12.7 minutes on the taxiways at MSY is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at SLC, DL736 spends 7.8 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 SLC spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 11,043 MSY departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 365,173 arrivals at SLC. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · December 2024 – August 2026
The hour it leaves MSY
DL736 has one departure time, 2:00 PM, so this is what that hour at MSY is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 11,043 departures from MSY are scheduled in the 2 PM–3 PM hour over the period, against 157,764 across the whole day.
DL736 is scheduled out of MSY at 2:00 PM, in the 2 PM–3 PM bank. Departures from MSY in that hour arrive on time 73.6% of the time against 78.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.0 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from MSY, 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 · December 2024 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes DL736 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. DL736 also served these 15 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLC→MSY Salt Lake City to New Orleans | June 14, 2025 – August 9, 2025 | 9 | — |
| CVG→MSP Cincinnati / Covington to Minneapolis | June 7, 2024 – December 18, 2024 | 153 | 86.2% |
| SEA→RDU Seattle to Raleigh–Durham | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 31 | — |
| AUS→LAX Austin to Los Angeles | March 10, 2024 – May 6, 2024 | 58 | — |
| LAX→AUS Los Angeles to Austin | March 10, 2024 – April 8, 2024 | 27 | — |
| ATL→SFO Atlanta to San Francisco | December 7, 2023 – March 8, 2024 | 79 | — |
| BOS→RDU Boston to Raleigh–Durham | January 13, 2024 – February 18, 2024 | 8 | — |
| SFO→ATL San Francisco to Atlanta | December 7, 2023 – January 5, 2024 | 7 | — |
| DCA→LAX Washington to Los Angeles | November 5, 2023 – December 6, 2023 | 31 | — |
| LAX→DCA Los Angeles to Washington | November 5, 2023 – December 6, 2023 | 31 | — |
| MSP→PBI Minneapolis to West Palm Beach | October 28, 2023 | 1 | — |
| PBI→MSP West Palm Beach to Minneapolis | October 28, 2023 | 1 | — |
| LGA→ATL New York to Atlanta | October 9–27, 2023 | 19 | — |
| ATL→PHL Atlanta to Philadelphia | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 64 | — |
| PHL→ATL Philadelphia to Atlanta | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 63 | — |
The figures above describe only MSY → SLC, the route DL736 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
10 min late
against a median of 12 min early
Percentiles over 604 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering December 2024 – August 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 604 records of DL736 operating MSY → 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 reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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