Flight number record
DL 3196
Delta Air Lines · Atlanta to Sarasota
- Route
- ATL → SRQ
- Departs
- 08:05
- Flights
- 255
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 3196, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 3196 earns an A−. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 255 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 3196's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 169 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 243 completed flights
Avg delay
46 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
0.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 255 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 3196 flies
DL 3196 flies ATL to SRQ without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:05, used on 64 of 255 flights, with 08:25 (61 flights) and 08:20 (57 flights) next.
- Departs 08:0564 flights25.1%
- Departs 08:2561 flights23.9%
- Departs 08:2057 flights22.4%
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 08:05 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and DL 3196 runs 10 points better at 94.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 3196 next to ATL to SRQ
Every carrier on ATL to SRQ combined arrived on time 80.8% of the time across 2,289 flights, so DL 3196 is 13 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 3196thin sample | 255 | 94.2% | 46 min | 3.92% | A− |
| All Delta Air Lines on ATL–SRQ | 2,289 | 80.8% | 57 min | 1.66% | B |
| All carriers on ATL–SRQ | 2,289 | 80.8% | 57 min | 1.66% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 3196 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 3196 held fairly steady: 91.6% in Jan–Mar 2026, 96.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 95.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights91.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights95.1%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 3196 did best on Wednesday at 100.0% on time and worst on Thursday at 85.7%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 3196 runs when it is late
DL 3196 often beats the schedule: 75 of 243 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 14 late arrivals split 6 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 2 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early75 flights30.9%
- Within 15 min154 flights63.4%
- 15–29 min late6 flights2.5%
- 30–59 min late6 flights2.5%
- 1–2 hours late0 flights0.0%
- 2+ hours late2 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 243 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 14 of 243 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 3196
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 2 hours 26 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 July 2026 | 2 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 December 2025 | 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 February 2026 | 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 May 2026 | 44 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why DL 3196 runs late
Carrier accounts for 69% of the 648 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
- 3%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 447 of the 648 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 648 delay minutes reported on DL 3196.
Cancellations run at 3.92%, against 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 0.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
DL 3196 is not only a ATL to SRQ flight. It also flew SRQ to ATL (255 flights, 91.1% 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. 255 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRQ to ATLthin sample | 255 | 91.1% | 84 min | 3.14% | A− |
What to do with this
Booking DL 3196
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 3196: 3.92% of its 255 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs roughly 45 minutes, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
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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.