Flight number record
DL 1196
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Fort Myers
- Route
- ATL → RSW
- Departs
- 13:27
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1196, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1196 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1196's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
48 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.65%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Schedule
When DL 1196 flies
DL 1196 flies ATL to RSW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:27, used on 50 of 364 flights, with 12:15 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 13:2750 flights13.7%
- Departs 12:1538 flights10.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 13:27 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 1196 runs 5 points better at 83.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
DL 1196 next to ATL to RSW
Every carrier on ATL to RSW combined arrived on time 77.2% of the time across 2,844 flights, so DL 1196 is 6 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,741 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1196thin sample | 364 | 83.5% | 48 min | 1.65% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–RSW | 2,741 | 77.8% | 58 min | 1.50% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–RSW | 2,844 | 77.2% | 59 min | 1.51% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 1196 quarter by quarter
DL 1196 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 89.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 78.2%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 91 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202591 flights84.6%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights78.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.9%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1196 did best on Wednesday at 94.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 75.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 1196 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 62% of the 2,831 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 62%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 9%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,761 of the 2,831 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,831 delay minutes reported on DL 1196.
Cancellations sit at 1.65% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 515 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including RSW to ATL (245), but none flew often enough under DL 1196 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ATL to RSW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking DL 1196
For a booking, read DL 1196 as 83.5% on time with 1.65% cancelled over 364 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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A flight number here means Delta Air Lines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.