Flight number record

DL 2386

Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to New York

Route: ATL → JFK
Departs: 22:30
Flights: 307
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2386, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2386 lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 307 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

On time

78.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 301 completed flights

Avg delay

66 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.95%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 307 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 2386 flies

DL 2386 flies ATL to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:30, used on 118 of 307 flights, with 22:25 (59 flights) and 22:40 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:30118 flights38.4%
Departs 22:2559 flights19.2%
Departs 22:4040 flights13.0%

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 22:30 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 2386 runs 8 points better at 78.4%. 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 2386 next to ATL to JFK

Every carrier on ATL to JFK combined arrived on time 75.3% of the time across 4,263 flights, so DL 2386 is 3 points ahead of it. Delta flew 2,448 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.7% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 3 points.

DL 2386 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2386thin sample	307	78.4%	66 min	1.95%	B
All Delta Air Lines on ATL–JFK	2,448	79.7%	75 min	1.51%	B
All carriers on ATL–JFK	4,263	75.3%	83 min	2.35%	B
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2386 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 2386 held fairly steady: 78.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 74.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 80.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 83.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights78.9%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights74.4%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights80.0%
Apr–Jun 202636 flights83.3%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2386 did best on Thursday at 83.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 71.4%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2386 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 58% of the 4,295 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
58%
National Airspace System
18%
Late-arriving aircraft
13%
Extreme weather
11%

The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, 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 2,477 of the 4,295 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,295 delay minutes reported on DL 2386.

Cancellations sit at 1.95% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

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.

Every one of the 307 flights under DL 2386 in the data flew ATL to JFK. 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. 307 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 2386

For a booking, read DL 2386 as 78.4% on time with 1.95% cancelled over 307 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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