Flight number record
DL 2286
Delta Air Lines · New York to Atlanta
- Route
- JFK → ATL
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2286, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2286 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2286's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 129 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.37%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.2%
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 2286 flies
DL 2286 is scheduled to leave New York (JFK) at 06:00 local time and reach Atlanta (ATL) at 08:24. That slot held for 301 of the 365 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 06:00301 flights82.5%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2286 runs level with that at 90.2%. 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 2286 next to JFK to ATL
Every carrier on JFK to ATL combined arrived on time 75.5% of the time across 4,227 flights, so DL 2286 is 15 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,453 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2286 | 365 | 90.2% | 72 min | 1.37% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on JFK–ATL | 2,453 | 81.4% | 89 min | 1.67% | B |
| All carriers on JFK–ATL | 4,227 | 75.5% | 83 min | 2.77% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2286 quarter by quarter
DL 2286 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 96.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 82.4%, a swing of 14 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 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights82.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights95.1%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2286 ranged from 86.5% on Friday to 94.0% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2286 runs when it is late
DL 2286 often beats the schedule: 149 of 357 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 35 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early149 flights41.7%
- Within 15 min173 flights48.5%
- 15–29 min late10 flights2.8%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.8%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.1%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 357 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 24 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 9 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 20 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 ATL.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2286
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 October 2025, 5 hours 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 October 2025 | 5 hours 50 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 16 February 2026 | 4 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 August 2026 | 3 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 September 2025 | 2 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 May 2026 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2286 runs late
Carrier accounts for 53% of the 2,510 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Carrier
- 47%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 53%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,325 of the 2,510 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,510 delay minutes reported on DL 2286.
Cancellations sit at 1.37% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.82%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.2% 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 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.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 2286 in the data flew JFK to ATL. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
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.
What to do with this
Booking DL 2286
For a booking, DL 2286 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 90.2% on time and 1.37% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
- JFK to ATL, every carrier and departure
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.