Flight number record
DL 2296
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Fort Lauderdale
- Route
- DTW → FLL
- Departs
- 20:40
- Flights
- 333
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2296, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2296 draws a D. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 333 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2296 runs 17 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 166 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 328 completed flights
Avg delay
87 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.20%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
20.7%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 333 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 20.7% 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 2296 flies
DL 2296 flies DTW to FLL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:40, used on 75 of 333 flights, with 19:59 (37 flights) and 20:57 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 20:4075 flights22.5%
- Departs 19:5937 flights11.1%
- Departs 20:5736 flights10.8%
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 20:40 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2296 runs 10 points worse at 61.0%. 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 2296 next to DTW to FLL
Every carrier on DTW to FLL combined arrived on time 72.4% of the time across 2,706 flights, so DL 2296 is 11 points behind it. Delta flew 1,815 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 21 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2296thin sample | 333 | 61.0% | 87 min | 1.20% | D |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–FLL | 1,815 | 74.2% | 70 min | 1.43% | C |
| All carriers on DTW–FLL | 2,706 | 72.4% | 70 min | 1.85% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2296 quarter by quarter
DL 2296 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 70.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 51.7%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 83 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 202567 flights61.2%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights70.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights51.7%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights60.9%
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2296 did best on Wednesday at 72.7% on time and worst on Friday at 49.0%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2296 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 56% of the 11,000 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.
- 56%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, 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 6,183 of the 11,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 11,130 delay minutes reported on DL 2296.
Cancellations sit at 1.20% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.
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. 20.7% 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 1,127 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.
Every one of the 333 flights under DL 2296 in the data flew DTW to FLL. 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. 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 2296
For a booking, DL 2296 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 20.7% 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.
Related
Where to go next
- DTW to FLL, every carrier and departure
- FLL to DTW, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1378 on the same route78.8%
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) delay statistics
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
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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.