Flight number record

DL 2196

Delta Air Lines · Boston to Fort Lauderdale

Route: BOS → FLL
Departs: 15:55
Flights: 335
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 335 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2196 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 160 extra late arrivals.

On time

61.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 328 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.79%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

16.8%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 335 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Schedule

When DL 2196 flies

DL 2196 flies BOS to FLL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:55, used on 54 of 335 flights, with 15:59 (53 flights) next.

Departs 15:5554 flights16.1%
Departs 15:5953 flights15.8%

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 15:55 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2196 runs 11 points worse at 61.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

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Against the route

DL 2196 next to BOS to FLL

Every carrier on BOS to FLL combined arrived on time 66.8% of the time across 3,306 flights, so DL 2196 is 6 points behind it. Delta flew 887 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 69.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 20 points.

DL 2196 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2196thin sample	335	61.3%	75 min	1.79%	D
All Delta Air Lines on BOS–FLL	887	69.8%	76 min	3.04%	C−
All carriers on BOS–FLL	3,306	66.8%	72 min	3.78%	C−
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,039,517	81.1%	71 min	1.74%	B

Across the year

DL 2196 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2196 held fairly steady: 62.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 60.3% in Jan–Mar 2026, 62.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 64.5% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
Oct–Dec 202591 flights62.2%
Jan–Mar 202661 flights60.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights62.2%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights64.5%

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

By weekday, DL 2196 ranged from 57.4% on Monday to 63.8% on Wednesday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Arrival by arrival

How late DL 2196 runs when it is late

The 127 late arrivals split 37 under half an hour, 35 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 55 an hour or more.

15+ min early74 flights22.6%
Within 15 min127 flights38.7%
15–29 min late37 flights11.3%
30–59 min late35 flights10.7%
1–2 hours late33 flights10.1%
2+ hours late22 flights6.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 328 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

17 of 111 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 33 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 2196

The latest arrival of the period was on 25 December 2025, 11 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of DL 2196 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
25 December 2025	11 hours 14 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
26 December 2025	7 hours 15 minutes	National Airspace System
3 May 2026	6 hours 3 minutes	Carrier
15 January 2026	5 hours 11 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
3 April 2026	3 hours 42 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why DL 2196 runs late

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 9,573 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
50%
National Airspace System
31%
Carrier
19%

50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,573 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 50 to one. The split is drawn from 9,573 delay minutes reported on DL 2196.

Cancellations sit at 1.79% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

16.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including FLL to BOS (176), 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. 335 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, DL 2196 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 16.8% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

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.

Key figures