Flight number record

DL 2460

Delta Air Lines · New York to West Palm Beach

Route: LGA → PBI
Departs: 15:05
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 364 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2460 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 158 extra late arrivals.

On time

61.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights

Avg delay

72 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.85%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

17.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 17.0% 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 2460 flies

DL 2460 flies LGA to PBI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:05, used on 64 of 364 flights, with 15:30 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:0564 flights17.6%
Departs 15:3041 flights11.3%

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 15:05 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 2460 runs 11 points worse at 61.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2460 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 2460 is 9 points behind 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 20 points.

DL 2460 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2460thin sample	364	61.8%	72 min	3.85%	D−
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 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 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 flights58.0%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights52.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights62.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights73.3%

Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2460 did best on Tuesday at 74.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 38.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 36 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2460 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 9,564 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
50%
National Airspace System
26%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
Security
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, 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 4,764 of the 9,564 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 9,564 delay minutes reported on DL 2460.

Cancellations run at 3.85%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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. 17.0% 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.

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. 364 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: 3.85% of its 364 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.

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.

Key figures