Flight number record

B6 1197

JetBlue Airways · Providence to Fort Lauderdale

Route: PVD → FLL
Departs: 05:45
Flights: 251
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1197, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 1197 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 251 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so B6 1197 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 71 extra late arrivals.

On time

70.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 242 completed flights

Avg delay

71 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.39%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

13.6%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 251 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Schedule

When B6 1197 flies

B6 1197 flies PVD to FLL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:45, used on 54 of 251 flights, with 18:20 (44 flights) and 08:00 (28 flights) next.

Departs 05:4554 flights21.5%
Departs 18:2044 flights17.5%
Departs 08:0028 flights11.2%

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 05:45 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and B6 1197 runs 19 points worse at 70.2%. 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

B6 1197 next to PVD to FLL

Every carrier on PVD to FLL combined arrived on time 70.3% of the time across 529 flights, so B6 1197 is about level with it. JetBlue flew 502 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.7% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, close to this flight's figure.

B6 1197 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 1197thin sample	251	70.2%	71 min	2.39%	C
All JetBlue Airways on PVD–FLL	502	70.7%	66 min	1.99%	C
All carriers on PVD–FLL	529	70.3%	65 min	1.89%	C
JetBlue Airways, whole network	240,615	71.3%	77 min	3.56%	C−

Across the year

B6 1197 quarter by quarter

B6 1197 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 86.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 58.9%, a swing of 27 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 202522 flights—
Oct–Dec 202576 flights69.7%
Jan–Mar 202660 flights58.9%
Apr–Jun 202631 flights71.0%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights86.2%

Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 1197 did best on Thursday at 77.5% on time and worst on Monday at 59.0%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late B6 1197 runs when it is late

The 72 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 33 an hour or more.

15+ min early54 flights22.3%
Within 15 min116 flights47.9%
15–29 min late17 flights7.0%
30–59 min late22 flights9.1%
1–2 hours late25 flights10.3%
2+ hours late8 flights3.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 242 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

11 of 71 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for B6 1197

The latest arrival of the period was on 18 January 2026, 7 hours 21 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of B6 1197 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
18 January 2026	7 hours 21 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
30 November 2025	4 hours 20 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
19 April 2026	2 hours 58 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
26 October 2025	2 hours 57 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
16 April 2026	2 hours 55 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why B6 1197 runs late

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 5,106 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
52%
National Airspace System
24%
Carrier
24%

52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,106 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 52 to one. The split is drawn from 5,106 delay minutes reported on B6 1197.

Cancellations sit at 2.39% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.20%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

13.6% 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.

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.

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. 13.6% 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.

Where to go next

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 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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