Flight number record
DL 2190
Delta Air Lines · New York to Atlanta
- Route
- JFK → ATL
- Departs
- 19:00
- Flights
- 304
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2190, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2190 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 304 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 299 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.64%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
10.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 304 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.0% 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 2190 flies
DL 2190 flies JFK to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:00, used on 52 of 304 flights, with 21:25 (50 flights) and 21:30 (42 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 19:0052 flights17.1%
- Departs 21:2550 flights16.4%
- Departs 21:3042 flights13.8%
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 19:00 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and DL 2190 runs 7 points better at 74.9%. 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 2190 next to JFK to ATL
Every carrier on JFK to ATL combined arrived on time 76.7% of the time across 4,272 flights, so DL 2190 is 2 points behind it. Delta flew 2,456 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2190thin sample | 304 | 74.9% | 67 min | 1.64% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on JFK–ATL | 2,456 | 82.2% | 83 min | 1.51% | B |
| All carriers on JFK–ATL | 4,272 | 76.7% | 77 min | 2.25% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2190 quarter by quarter
DL 2190 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 67.4%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 76 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 flights67.4%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights73.3%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights81.0%
- Apr–Jun 202655 flights83.3%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2190 did best on Tuesday at 79.5% on time and worst on Thursday at 67.4%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2190 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 5,026 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.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
46% 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 5,026 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 31 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 5,026 delay minutes reported on DL 2190.
Cancellations sit at 1.64% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 10.0% 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 760 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 AUS to MCO (36), but none flew often enough under DL 2190 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to JFK to ATL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 304 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 2190
For a booking, read DL 2190 as 74.9% on time with 1.64% cancelled over 304 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- JFK to ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to JFK, the return direction
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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.