Flight number record

DL 1422

Delta Air Lines · New York to Fort Lauderdale

Route: JFK → FLL
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 365
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1422, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1422 earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1422's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 93 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights

Avg delay

55 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.11%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

3.4%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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.

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Schedule

When DL 1422 flies

DL 1422 flies JFK to FLL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 218 of 365 flights, with 07:05 (62 flights) and 07:30 (50 flights) next.

Departs 07:00218 flights59.7%
Departs 07:0562 flights17.0%
Departs 07:3050 flights13.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1422 runs 3 points worse at 86.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

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Against the route

DL 1422 next to JFK to FLL

Every carrier on JFK to FLL combined arrived on time 71.9% of the time across 3,907 flights, so DL 1422 is 15 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,614 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.3% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 6 points.

DL 1422 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1422	365	86.6%	55 min	4.11%	A−
All Delta Air Lines on JFK–FLL	1,614	75.3%	66 min	3.90%	B−
All carriers on JFK–FLL	3,907	71.9%	70 min	4.76%	C−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 1422 quarter by quarter

DL 1422 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.9%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 73 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 202530 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights88.5%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.9%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights89.5%

Scale runs 70% to 100%.

By weekday, DL 1422 did best on Tuesday at 94.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 80.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 1422 runs when it is late

DL 1422 often beats the schedule: 157 of 350 completed flights, 45%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 47 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.

15+ min early157 flights44.9%
Within 15 min146 flights41.7%
15–29 min late21 flights6.0%
30–59 min late14 flights4.0%
1–2 hours late8 flights2.3%
2+ hours late4 flights1.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 26 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 11 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 32 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at FLL.

The worst days

Worst days for DL 1422

The latest arrival of the period was on 14 December 2025, 5 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across December, March, November and September, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of DL 1422 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
14 December 2025	5 hours 37 minutes	Extreme weather
19 March 2026	3 hours 42 minutes	Carrier
8 November 2025	2 hours 39 minutes	National Airspace System
7 September 2025	2 hours 27 minutes	Carrier
18 March 2026	1 hour 58 minutes	National Airspace System

Delay causes

Why DL 1422 runs late

National Airspace System accounts for 57% of the 2,601 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

National Airspace System
57%
Carrier
34%
Extreme weather
10%

57% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,475 minutes out of 2,601, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,601 delay minutes reported on DL 1422.

Cancellations run at 4.11%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 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.

DL 1422 is not only a JFK to FLL flight. It also flew FLL to JFK (280 flights, 70.9% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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.

Other routes flown as DL 1422
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
FLL to JFKthin sample	280	70.9%	58 min	4.29%	C−

What to do with this

Booking DL 1422

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1422: 4.11% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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