Flight number record
DL 2396
Delta Air Lines · New York to West Palm Beach
- Route
- LGA → PBI
- Departs
- 11:10
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2396, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2396 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2396 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 58 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.74%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
9.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% 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 2396 flies
DL 2396 flies LGA to PBI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:10, used on 83 of 365 flights, with 11:05 (57 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 11:1083 flights22.7%
- Departs 11:0557 flights15.6%
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 11:10 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2396 runs 7 points worse at 71.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
DL 2396 next to LGA to PBI
Every carrier on LGA to PBI combined arrived on time 70.3% of the time across 3,199 flights, so DL 2396 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,553 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2396 | 365 | 71.8% | 62 min | 2.74% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on LGA–PBI | 1,553 | 72.1% | 72 min | 4.38% | C− |
| All carriers on LGA–PBI | 3,199 | 70.3% | 76 min | 4.31% | C− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2396 quarter by quarter
DL 2396 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 78.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 62.0%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights78.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights62.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights69.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2396 did best on Tuesday at 78.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 62.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2396 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 46% of the 6,200 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.
- 46%Carrier
- 33%National Airspace System
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, 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 2,839 of the 6,200 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,200 delay minutes reported on DL 2396.
Cancellations run at 2.74%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
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. 9.0% 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 1,035 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.
DL 2396 is not only a LGA to PBI flight. It also flew PBI to LGA (358 flights, 58.7% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PBI to LGAthin sample | 358 | 58.7% | 65 min | 3.07% | D− |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2396
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2396: 2.74% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to PBI, every carrier and departure
- PBI to LGA, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 2460 on the same route61.8%
- JetBlue Airways 1761 on the same route57.4%
- Delta Air Lines 2410 on the same route61.9%
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
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- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.