Carrier performance at one airport
B6→JFK
JetBlue Airways at John F. Kennedy International
- Departures
- 35,630
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Routes
- 25
- Rank here
- #5 of 6
JetBlue Airways at New York carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.9% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about seven flights in ten arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 35,630 flights, of which American Airlines flew 15,348 at 77.8% on time.
Measured against the airport rather than the country, JetBlue Airways runs 4 points behind the 74.3% weighted average across all carriers at JFK. That is the comparison worth making: every operator here works the same runways, the same airspace and the same weather.
Key figures
On time
70.7%
33,784 completed departures
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed flights only
Cancelled
4.90%
At JFK, this carrier only
Rank here
#5
Of 6 carriers clearing the floor at JFK
These figures cover 36,000 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
Against the competition
Every carrier at JFK, ranked
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. American Airlines arrives on time 77.8% of the time; Frontier Airlines manages 69.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,971 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 15,348 | 77.8% | 97 min | 2.93% | B |
| Republic Airways | 14,963 | 76.5% | 76 min | 5.38% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines | 30,645 | 76.5% | 71 min | 3.01% | B− |
| Alaska Airlines | 4,032 | 71.5% | 68 min | 2.80% | C |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 35,630 | 70.7% | 75 min | 4.90% | C− |
| Frontier Airlines | 1,971 | 69.5% | 91 min | 2.33% | C |
Republic Airways cancels 5.4% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Route by route
Where JetBlue Airways flies from JFK
JetBlue Airways operates 25 routes out of JFK with enough volume to report. Route records inside one carrier at one airport still spread widely, because a short shuttle and a transcontinental have very different exposure to a late inbound.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JFK to LAX · Los Angeles | 3,480 | 72.5% | 73 min | 3.19% | C− |
| JFK to MCO · Orlando | 2,592 | 71.6% | 84 min | 4.44% | C− |
| JFK to BOS · Boston | 2,389 | 68.3% | 80 min | 5.11% | C− |
| JFK to FLL · Fort Lauderdale | 2,293 | 69.4% | 71 min | 5.36% | C− |
| JFK to SJU · San Juan | 2,245 | 67.7% | 78 min | 4.14% | C− |
| JFK to SFO · San Francisco | 1,955 | 73.4% | 73 min | 2.86% | C |
| JFK to PBI · West Palm Beach | 1,383 | 71.9% | 70 min | 4.56% | C− |
| JFK to LAS · Las Vegas | 1,382 | 80.6% | 67 min | 3.33% | B− |
| JFK to BUF · Buffalo | 1,226 | 72.0% | 84 min | 6.53% | C− |
| JFK to TPA · Tampa | 1,119 | 73.1% | 79 min | 5.81% | C− |
| JFK to ATL · Atlanta | 1,113 | 66.5% | 77 min | 5.48% | C− |
| JFK to RDU · Raleigh | 959 | 68.6% | 85 min | 6.78% | C− |
| JFK to JAX · Jacksonville | 891 | 73.4% | 73 min | 4.94% | C− |
| JFK to RSW · Fort Myers | 809 | 73.2% | 75 min | 4.82% | C− |
| JFK to SAN · San Diego | 724 | 83.2% | 60 min | 3.59% | B− |
| JFK to CHS · Charleston | 638 | 72.8% | 70 min | 5.80% | C− |
| JFK to ORD · Chicago | 634 | 64.0% | 85 min | 7.57% | D− |
| JFK to ROC · Rochester | 606 | 69.3% | 69 min | 5.78% | C− |
| JFK to BNA · Nashville | 547 | 70.8% | 64 min | 6.95% | C− |
| JFK to DEN · Denver | 545 | 67.9% | 63 min | 5.14% | C− |
| JFK to PHX · Phoenix | 531 | 72.8% | 63 min | 4.71% | C− |
| JFK to SAV · Savannah | 486 | 73.4% | 74 min | 6.79% | C− |
| JFK to PIT · Pittsburgh | 454 | 66.2% | 75 min | 5.95% | C− |
| JFK to DTW · Detroit | 445 | 67.4% | 64 min | 6.07% | C− |
| JFK to DCA · Washington | 445 | 52.7% | 83 min | 7.19% | F− |
Flight by flight
JetBlue Airways flight numbers from JFK
46 JetBlue Airways flight numbers leaving JFK flew their main route often enough to have a record of their own. Grouped by destination.
- B6 519to ATL 06:5075.9%
- B6 719to ATL 20:5958.8%
- B6 675to BDL 22:4564.2%
- B6 1173to BNA 10:3771.7%
- B6 418to BOS 10:3074.4%
- B6 618to BOS 16:5056.0%
- B6 1118to BOS 22:5962.0%
- B6 102to BUF 22:2960.5%
- B6 1202to BUF 17:3060.1%
- B6 1602to BUF 07:3087.7%
- B6 2902to BUF 13:2977.3%
- B6 1273to CHS 08:1073.5%
- B6 2473to CHS 16:5471.4%
- B6 1867to DAB 07:3085.9%
- B6 97to DEN 20:1554.6%
- B6 1to FLL 06:0086.1%
- B6 1801to FLL 09:3063.8%
- B6 677to JAX 13:5975.5%
- B6 411to LAS 06:0092.3%
- B6 511to LAS 11:0083.0%
- B6 711to LAS 18:4570.8%
- B6 123to LAX 06:0086.9%
- B6 223to LAX 07:3079.5%
- B6 323to LAX 11:0075.3%
- B6 423to LAX 13:0069.6%
- B6 523to LAX 09:2081.3%
- B6 83to MCO 12:0069.4%
- B6 183to MCO 08:1081.2%
- B6 283to MCO 18:4560.9%
- B6 383to MCO 20:0073.2%
- B6 883to MCO 09:2976.4%
- B6 1053to PBI 19:0065.9%
- B6 1195to PIT 22:0064.7%
- B6 1128to PVD 22:2966.4%
- B6 1529to RSW 06:3085.4%
- B6 1189to SAN 16:3080.1%
- B6 15to SFO 08:0084.0%
- B6 115to SFO 06:0080.9%
- B6 615to SFO 18:3066.3%
- B6 503to SJU 10:0072.1%
- B6 803to SJU 21:2962.2%
- B6 1603to SJU 08:2975.6%
- B6 71to SLC 18:3069.6%
- B6 163to SRQ 09:3577.5%
- B6 225to TPA 20:2981.0%
- B6 2725to TPA 06:3077.2%
Departure window
Best time of day for this operation
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 26 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am5,857 flights86.3%
- 8am–11am6,558 flights77.7%
- 11am–2pm4,290 flights73.7%
- 2pm–5pm5,348 flights65.6%
- 5pm–8pm5,844 flights62.4%
- 8pm–5am7,733 flights60.8%
Scale runs 50% to 90%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 60.8% on time, against 86.3% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 7,733 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Seasonal pattern
August is the worst month at 57.4% on time, 25 points below May, the best at 82.7%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. August was the busiest month here, with 3,472 flights.
Delay causes
What holds this operation up
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 741,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 740,767 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 4.90%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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.
12.6% 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.
35,630 flights sit behind these numbers, which is a large enough sample that the headline rate is not moving on noise. Where a sub-group falls below 30 flights the site shows a dash instead of a percentage.
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.90% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 33,784 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
JetBlue Airways at JFK
How often is JetBlue Airways at JFK delayed?
Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 29.3% of the 35,630 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on JetBlue Airways at JFK?
American Airlines leads at 77.8% on time across 15,348 flights. Frontier Airlines is at the other end on 69.5%, a gap of 8 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on JetBlue Airways at JFK?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 86.3% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 60.8%, 26 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are August delays on JetBlue Airways at JFK?
August is the weakest month at 57.4% on time, compared with 82.7% in May. Across the year that is 25 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
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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.