Flight number record
B6 126
JetBlue Airways · Tampa to New York
- Route
- TPA → JFK
- Departs
- 06:13
- Flights
- 305
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 126, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 126 lands a B−, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 305 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, B6 126's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 42 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 292 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.93%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 305 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 126 flies
B6 126 flies TPA to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:13, used on 56 of 305 flights, with 07:00 (48 flights) next.
- Departs 06:1356 flights18.4%
- Departs 07:0048 flights15.7%
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 06:13 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and B6 126 runs 8 points worse at 81.5%. 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 126 next to TPA to JFK
Every carrier on TPA to JFK combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 2,307 flights, so B6 126 is 3 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 1,116 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.4% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 126thin sample | 305 | 81.5% | 57 min | 3.93% | B− |
| All JetBlue Airways on TPA–JFK | 1,116 | 74.4% | 75 min | 6.00% | C− |
| All carriers on TPA–JFK | 2,307 | 78.6% | 77 min | 4.16% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 126 quarter by quarter
B6 126 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 71.1%, a swing of 29 points on roughly 61 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 flights75.3%
- Jan–Mar 202688 flights71.1%
- Apr–Jun 202633 flights90.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.2%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, B6 126 did best on Wednesday at 88.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 69.2%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 126 runs when it is late
B6 126 often beats the schedule: 74 of 292 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 54 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early74 flights25.3%
- Within 15 min164 flights56.2%
- 15–29 min late21 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late16 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 292 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 56 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 126
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 October 2025, 3 hours 38 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.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2025 | 3 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 November 2025 | 3 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 December 2025 | 2 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 April 2026 | 2 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 December 2025 | 2 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why B6 126 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 3,049 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,049 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 54 to one. The split is drawn from 3,049 delay minutes reported on B6 126.
Cancellations run at 3.93%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
5.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,005 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 305 flights under B6 126 in the data flew TPA 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. 305 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 126
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 126: 3.93% of its 305 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
- TPA to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to TPA, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2475 on the same route93.6%
- JetBlue Airways 226 on the same route66.0%
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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.