Flight number record
DL 2296
Delta Air Lines · Detroit to Fort Lauderdale
- Route
- DTW → FLL
- Departs
- 20:40
- Flights
- 331
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2296, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2296 draws a D. Roughly one flight in two 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 331 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2296 runs 18 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 176 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
59.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 325 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.51%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
21.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 331 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 21.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 76 of 331 flights, with 19:59 (37 flights) and 20:57 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 20:4076 flights23.0%
- Departs 19:5937 flights11.2%
- Departs 20:5736 flights10.9%
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 20:40 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 2296 runs 10 points worse at 59.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 2296 next to DTW to FLL
Every carrier on DTW to FLL combined arrived on time 71.5% of the time across 2,692 flights, so DL 2296 is 12 points behind it. Delta flew 1,808 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 21 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2296thin sample | 331 | 59.7% | 84 min | 1.51% | D |
| All Delta Air Lines on DTW–FLL | 1,808 | 73.6% | 69 min | 1.66% | C |
| All carriers on DTW–FLL | 2,692 | 71.5% | 69 min | 2.34% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 Jul–Sep 2026 at 44.7%, a swing of 25 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 202517 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights70.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights51.7%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights60.9%
- Jul–Sep 202648 flights44.7%
Scale runs 35% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2296 did best on Wednesday at 65.2% on time and worst on Friday at 51.0%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2296 runs when it is late
When DL 2296 is late it tends to be very late: 69 of its 131 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 30 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early64 flights19.7%
- Within 15 min130 flights40.0%
- 15–29 min late38 flights11.7%
- 30–59 min late24 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late39 flights12.0%
- 2+ hours late30 flights9.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 325 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 122 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 14 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 23 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 2296
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 December 2025, 15 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 December 2025 | 15 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 December 2025 | 6 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 January 2026 | 4 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 February 2026 | 4 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 May 2026 | 4 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2296 runs late
Carrier accounts for 57% of the 11,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Carrier
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,278 of the 11,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 11,049 delay minutes reported on DL 2296.
Cancellations sit at 1.51% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
21.2% 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 1,127 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.
Every one of the 331 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. 331 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. 21.2% 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 route77.3%
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) delay statistics
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.