Flight number record
DL 2460
Delta Air Lines · New York to West Palm Beach
- Route
- LGA → PBI
- Departs
- 15:05
- Flights
- 333
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2460, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2460 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 333 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2460 runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 136 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 317 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.50%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
16.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 333 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2460 flies
DL 2460 flies LGA to PBI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:05, used on 46 of 333 flights, with 15:30 (41 flights) next.
- Departs 15:0546 flights13.8%
- Departs 15:3041 flights12.3%
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 15:05 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 2460 runs 8 points worse at 63.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2460 next to LGA to PBI
Every carrier on LGA to PBI combined arrived on time 70.2% of the time across 3,008 flights, so DL 2460 is 7 points behind it. Delta flew 1,434 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2460thin sample | 333 | 63.7% | 69 min | 4.50% | D− |
| All Delta Air Lines on LGA–PBI | 1,434 | 71.9% | 69 min | 4.32% | C− |
| All carriers on LGA–PBI | 3,008 | 70.2% | 75 min | 4.32% | C− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2460 quarter by quarter
DL 2460 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 73.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 52.9%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 111 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights52.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights62.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights73.3%
- Jul–Sep 202631 flights—
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2460 did best on Tuesday at 75.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 46.7%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 28 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2460 runs when it is late
DL 2460 often beats the schedule: 89 of 317 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 115 late arrivals split 30 under half an hour, 34 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 51 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early89 flights28.1%
- Within 15 min113 flights35.6%
- 15–29 min late30 flights9.5%
- 30–59 min late34 flights10.7%
- 1–2 hours late35 flights11.0%
- 2+ hours late16 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 317 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
29 of 122 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 22 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 PBI.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2460
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 July 2026, 6 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across July, September, June, November and March, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2026 | 6 hours 42 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 September 2025 | 4 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 June 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 November 2025 | 3 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 March 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 2460 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 7,897 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 32%National Airspace System
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,143 of the 7,897 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,897 delay minutes reported on DL 2460.
Cancellations run at 4.50%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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
16.1% 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 1,035 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including PBI to LGA (121), but none flew often enough under DL 2460 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LGA to PBI only.
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 2460
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2460: 4.50% of its 333 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over 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
- Delta Air Lines 2536 on the same route89.7%
- Delta Air Lines 2396 on the same route71.4%
- JetBlue Airways 1761 on the same route57.2%
- Delta Air Lines 2410 on the same route62.0%
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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.