Flight number record

DL 2286

Delta Air Lines · New York to Atlanta

Route: JFK → ATL
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 360
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 360 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 2286's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 119 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.11%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 360 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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.

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 295 of the 360 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.

Departs 06:00295 flights81.9%

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 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 89.5%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 2286 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 2286 is 13 points ahead of 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 beats by 8 points.

DL 2286 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2286thin sample	360	89.5%	67 min	1.11%	A
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 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 90 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 202587 flights90.8%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights82.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.6%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2286 ranged from 84.6% on Friday to 92.2% on Tuesday. With about 51 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.

Delay causes

Why DL 2286 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 2,478 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
55%
National Airspace System
45%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, 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 1,362 of the 2,478 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,478 delay minutes reported on DL 2286.

Cancellations sit at 1.11% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.83%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. 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 two other city pairs in the data, including MSP to FSD (1) and FSD to MSP (1), but none flew often enough under DL 2286 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. 360 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: 89.5% on time and 1.11% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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