Flight number record

DL 1414

Delta Air Lines · New York to Fort Lauderdale

Route: JFK → FLL
Departs: 19:55
Flights: 350
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1414, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1414 draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 350 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 1414 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 103 extra late arrivals.

On time

67.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 333 completed flights

Avg delay

76 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.57%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

16.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 350 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When DL 1414 flies

DL 1414 flies JFK to FLL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:55, used on 237 of 350 flights, with 19:59 (84 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:55237 flights67.7%
Departs 19:5984 flights24.0%

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 19:55 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 1414 runs level with that at 67.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 1414 next to JFK to FLL

Every carrier on JFK to FLL combined arrived on time 72.7% of the time across 3,884 flights, so DL 1414 is 5 points behind it. Delta flew 1,614 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 14 points.

DL 1414 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1414thin sample	350	67.3%	76 min	4.57%	C−
All Delta Air Lines on JFK–FLL	1,614	76.5%	69 min	3.47%	B−
All carriers on JFK–FLL	3,884	72.7%	69 min	3.76%	C−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1414 quarter by quarter

DL 1414 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 79.8% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 59.8%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 88 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 202592 flights64.7%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights59.8%
Jan–Mar 202677 flights63.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.8%

Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1414 did best on Friday at 79.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 50.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1414 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 8,327 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
49%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
19%
Extreme weather
1%

49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 8,327 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 49 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 8,327 delay minutes reported on DL 1414.

Cancellations run at 4.57%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 16.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 1,069 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.

Every one of the 350 flights under DL 1414 in the data flew JFK to FLL. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 350 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 1414

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1414: 4.57% of its 350 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

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.

Key figures