Flight number record
B6 1197
JetBlue Airways · Providence to Fort Lauderdale
- Route
- PVD → FLL
- Departs
- 19:47
- Flights
- 251
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1197, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 1197 draws a C. About 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 251 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so B6 1197 runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 119 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 245 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.99%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
17.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 251 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 17.6% 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 B6 1197 flies
B6 1197 flies PVD to FLL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:47, used on 59 of 251 flights, with 18:20 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 19:4759 flights23.5%
- Departs 18:2044 flights17.5%
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 19:47 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and B6 1197 runs 3 points worse at 65.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
B6 1197 next to PVD to FLL
Every carrier on PVD to FLL combined arrived on time 68.1% of the time across 547 flights, so B6 1197 is 2 points behind it. JetBlue flew 520 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 68.4% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 1197thin sample | 251 | 65.7% | 77 min | 1.99% | C |
| All JetBlue Airways on PVD–FLL | 520 | 68.4% | 69 min | 1.73% | C |
| All carriers on PVD–FLL | 547 | 68.1% | 68 min | 1.65% | C |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 234,468 | 72.7% | 76 min | 2.56% | C |
Across the year
B6 1197 quarter by quarter
B6 1197 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 71.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 58.9%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 63 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 202584 flights64.6%
- Oct–Dec 202576 flights69.7%
- Jan–Mar 202660 flights58.9%
- Apr–Jun 202631 flights71.0%
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 1197 did best on Thursday at 70.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 53.8%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why B6 1197 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 6,502 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.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%National Airspace System
- 17%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,502 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 58 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 6,502 delay minutes reported on B6 1197.
Cancellations sit at 1.99% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.40%.
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. 17.6% 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 1,188 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.
Every one of the 251 flights under B6 1197 in the data flew PVD to FLL. 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. 251 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 1197
For a booking, B6 1197 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 17.6% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- JetBlue Airways on-time record
- Every JetBlue Airways flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.