Flight number record
B6 1198
JetBlue Airways · Pittsburgh to New York
- Route
- PIT → JFK
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, B6 1198's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 99 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 337 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
7.67%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When B6 1198 flies
B6 1198 is scheduled to leave Pittsburgh (PIT) at 06:00 local time and reach New York (JFK) at 07:34. That slot held for 316 of the 365 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 06:00316 flights86.6%
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 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 2 points worse at 87.2%. 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 1198 next to PIT to JFK
Every carrier on PIT to JFK combined arrived on time 85.9% of the time across 1,764 flights, so B6 1198 is about level with it. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight beats by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 1198 | 365 | 87.2% | 75 min | 7.67% | A− |
| All JetBlue Airways on PIT–JFK | 454 | 83.3% | 82 min | 7.49% | B− |
| All carriers on PIT–JFK | 1,764 | 85.9% | 79 min | 4.59% | A− |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 1198 quarter by quarter
B6 1198 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 77.1%, a swing of 23 points on roughly 73 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 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights77.1%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, B6 1198 did best on Tuesday at 93.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 78.3%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 1198 runs when it is late
B6 1198 often beats the schedule: 101 of 337 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 43 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early101 flights30.0%
- Within 15 min193 flights57.3%
- 15–29 min late17 flights5.0%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.3%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.8%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 337 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 24 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 1 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 20 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 JFK.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 1198
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 April 2026, 7 hours 8 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2026 | 7 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 June 2026 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 February 2026 | 4 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 January 2026 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 January 2026 | 2 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why B6 1198 runs late
Carrier accounts for 69% of the 3,243 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 4%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,226 of the 3,243 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,243 delay minutes reported on B6 1198.
Cancellations run at 7.67%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twelve 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 4.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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: 7.67% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- PIT to JFK, every carrier and departure
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- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
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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.