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DL863

New York (JFK) to Salt Lake City (SLC) · scheduled 6:40 PM – 10:15 PM

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How DL863 performs

769 operations, 2024-01-08 to 2026-06-30.

On-time arrivals
71.1%
538 of 757 completed
Cancellation rate
1.04%
8 cancelled
Median arrival delay
-6 min
Average 5.9 min
Severe delays
10.0%
Arrived 60+ minutes late
Delay when late
62 min
Average, when 15+ min late
Departure punctuality
70.7%
Left the gate on time

DL863 arrived on time 71.1% of the time, against 80.1% for all JFKSLC flights — this specific departure is 9.0 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Delta Air Lines’s own flights on this route it is 12.5 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 769 operations between 2024-01-08 to 2026-06-30

Against the rest of the route

On timeCancelledMedian delaySevereFlights
DL86371.1%1.04%-6 min10.0%769
Delta Air Lines on JFKSLC83.6%0.81%-13 min5.3%4,553
All JFKSLC flights80.1%1.07%-11 min7.0%5,904

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2024-01-08 to 2026-06-30

Other routes DL863 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.

RouteOperatedFlightsOn time
OGGSLC Kahului to Salt Lake City2025-12-192026-01-0417
CHAATL Chattanooga to Atlanta2025-01-062025-02-1127
JFKPHX New York to Phoenix2024-05-092024-06-0617
STLMSP St. Louis to Minneapolis2024-04-092024-05-0628
JFKLAS New York to Las Vegas2023-09-052024-01-0711687.0%
PDXATL Portland to Atlanta2023-07-012023-09-0466

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route DL863 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 769 records of DL863 operating JFKSLC, 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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