Flight number record

DL 2096

Delta Air Lines · Los Angeles to New Orleans

Route: LAX → MSY
Departs: 12:00
Flights: 285
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2096, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2096 lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 285 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

On time

77.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 283 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.35%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 285 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.8% 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 2096 flies

DL 2096 flies LAX to MSY without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:00, used on 56 of 285 flights, with 12:05 (37 flights) and 13:29 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:0056 flights19.6%
Departs 12:0537 flights13.0%
Departs 13:2931 flights10.9%

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 12:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2096 runs level with that at 77.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2096 next to LAX to MSY

Every carrier on LAX to MSY combined arrived on time 78.8% of the time across 1,500 flights, so DL 2096 is about level with it. Delta flew 959 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

DL 2096 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2096thin sample	285	77.7%	65 min	0.35%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on LAX–MSY	959	81.8%	67 min	0.42%	B+
All carriers on LAX–MSY	1,500	78.8%	64 min	0.60%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2096 quarter by quarter

DL 2096 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 84.8% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 70.0%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 71 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 flights84.8%
Oct–Dec 202582 flights78.0%
Jan–Mar 202640 flights74.4%
Apr–Jun 202671 flights70.0%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2096 did best on Wednesday at 87.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 65.1%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2096 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 57% of the 4,115 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.

Carrier
57%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
National Airspace System
12%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, 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 2,330 of the 4,115 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,115 delay minutes reported on DL 2096.

Cancellations are rare at 0.35%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

8.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 1,671 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including MSY to LAX (39), PBI to LGA (5) and LGA to PBI (5), but none flew often enough under DL 2096 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to MSY only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 285 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 2096

For a booking, read DL 2096 as 77.7% on time with 0.35% cancelled over 285 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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.

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