Flight number record

B6 1198

JetBlue Airways · Pittsburgh to New York

Route: PIT → JFK
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1198, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 1198 earns an A−. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, B6 1198's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 113 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights

Avg delay

87 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.03%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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.

Schedule

When B6 1198 flies

B6 1198 flies PIT to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 289 of 365 flights, with 07:00 (64 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00289 flights79.2%
Departs 07:0064 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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and B6 1198 runs level with that at 88.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

B6 1198 next to PIT to JFK

Every carrier on PIT to JFK combined arrived on time 87.0% of the time across 1,764 flights, so B6 1198 is 2 points ahead of it. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 16 points.

B6 1198 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 1198	365	88.9%	87 min	6.03%	A−
All JetBlue Airways on PIT–JFK	454	84.7%	89 min	6.17%	B−
All carriers on PIT–JFK	1,764	87.0%	78 min	3.46%	A−
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 1198 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter B6 1198 held fairly steady: 92.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights92.9%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.0%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 1198 ranged from 85.1% on Saturday to 92.0% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 7 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why B6 1198 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 75% of the 3,303 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.

Carrier
75%
National Airspace System
21%
Late-arriving aircraft
4%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 75%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,472 of the 3,303 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,303 delay minutes reported on B6 1198.

Cancellations run at 6.03%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.

Every one of the 365 flights under B6 1198 in the data flew PIT to JFK. 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. 365 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 1198

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 1198: 6.03% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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