Flight number record

DL 2196

Delta Air Lines · Boston to Fort Lauderdale

Route: BOS → FLL
Departs: 15:30
Flights: 333
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2196, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2196 draws a D. Roughly 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 333 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2196 runs 17 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 174 extra late arrivals.

On time

60.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 322 completed flights

Avg delay

79 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.70%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

18.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 333 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.0% 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 2196 flies

DL 2196 flies BOS to FLL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:30, used on 68 of 333 flights, with 15:55 (54 flights) and 15:59 (53 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:3068 flights20.4%
Departs 15:5554 flights16.2%
Departs 15:5953 flights15.9%

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 15:30 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2196 runs 12 points worse at 60.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2196 next to BOS to FLL

Every carrier on BOS to FLL combined arrived on time 66.7% of the time across 3,417 flights, so DL 2196 is 7 points behind it. Delta flew 885 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 69.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 21 points.

DL 2196 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2196thin sample	333	60.2%	79 min	2.70%	D
All Delta Air Lines on BOS–FLL	885	69.5%	78 min	3.05%	C−
All carriers on BOS–FLL	3,417	66.7%	73 min	3.45%	C−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2196 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2196 held fairly steady: 56.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 62.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 60.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 62.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202590 flights56.0%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights62.2%
Jan–Mar 202661 flights60.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights62.2%

Scale runs 50% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2196 did best on Sunday at 66.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 53.2%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2196 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 10,000 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%
National Airspace System
29%
Carrier
21%

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 10,000 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 10,151 delay minutes reported on DL 2196.

Cancellations run at 2.70%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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. 18.0% 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 1,237 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 FLL to BOS (202), but none flew often enough under DL 2196 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BOS to FLL only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 333 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 2196

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2196: 2.70% of its 333 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.

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