Flight number record
B6 1053
JetBlue Airways · New York to West Palm Beach
- Route
- JFK → PBI
- Departs
- 19:00
- Flights
- 274
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1053, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 1053 draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 274 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so B6 1053 runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 114 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 252 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.93%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
13.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 274 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When B6 1053 flies
B6 1053 flies JFK to PBI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:00, used on 42 of 274 flights, with 18:55 (41 flights) and 08:45 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 19:0042 flights15.3%
- Departs 18:5541 flights15.0%
- Departs 08:4534 flights12.4%
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 19:00 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and B6 1053 runs 2 points worse at 65.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
B6 1053 next to JFK to PBI
Every carrier on JFK to PBI combined arrived on time 74.8% of the time across 2,050 flights, so B6 1053 is 9 points behind it. JetBlue flew 1,383 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 JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 1053thin sample | 274 | 65.9% | 66 min | 6.93% | C− |
| All JetBlue Airways on JFK–PBI | 1,383 | 71.9% | 70 min | 4.56% | C− |
| All carriers on JFK–PBI | 2,050 | 74.8% | 71 min | 4.59% | C− |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 1053 quarter by quarter
B6 1053 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 72.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 56.7%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 69 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 flights56.7%
- Oct–Dec 202550 flights66.7%
- Jan–Mar 202676 flights62.9%
- Apr–Jun 202687 flights72.6%
- Jul–Sep 202631 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 1053 did best on Tuesday at 80.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 57.6%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 1053 runs when it is late
B6 1053 often beats the schedule: 87 of 252 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 86 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 34 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early87 flights34.5%
- Within 15 min79 flights31.3%
- 15–29 min late26 flights10.3%
- 30–59 min late26 flights10.3%
- 1–2 hours late24 flights9.5%
- 2+ hours late10 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 252 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 79 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% 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 B6 1053
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 January 2026, 4 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 January 2026 | 4 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 April 2026 | 4 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 July 2026 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 June 2026 | 3 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 October 2025 | 3 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why B6 1053 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 5,671 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,671 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 38 to one. The split is drawn from 5,671 delay minutes reported on B6 1053.
Cancellations run at 6.93%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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
13.5% 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 1,028 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.
Every one of the 274 flights under B6 1053 in the data flew JFK to PBI. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 274 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 B6 1053
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 1053: 6.93% of its 274 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
- JFK to PBI, every carrier and departure
- PBI to JFK, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2018 on the same route88.7%
- Delta Air Lines 1638 on the same route73.1%
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
- Palm Beach International (PBI) delay statistics
- JetBlue Airways on-time record
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A flight number here means JetBlue Airways’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.