Flight number record

B6 1282

JetBlue Airways · Richmond to Boston

Route: RIC → BOS
Departs: 14:32
Flights: 333
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1282, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 1282 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 333 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so B6 1282 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 42 extra late arrivals.

On time

73.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 323 completed flights

Avg delay

70 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

10.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 333 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.8% 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 1282 flies

B6 1282 flies RIC to BOS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:32, used on 53 of 333 flights, with 11:00 (38 flights) and 14:24 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:3253 flights15.9%
Departs 11:0038 flights11.4%
Departs 14:2436 flights10.8%

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 14:32 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and B6 1282 runs level with that at 73.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

B6 1282 next to RIC to BOS

Every carrier on RIC to BOS combined arrived on time 78.4% of the time across 1,696 flights, so B6 1282 is 5 points behind it. JetBlue flew 758 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.2% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, close to this flight's figure.

B6 1282 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 1282thin sample	333	73.4%	70 min	3.00%	C
All JetBlue Airways on RIC–BOS	758	75.2%	84 min	2.90%	B
All carriers on RIC–BOS	1,696	78.4%	78 min	2.89%	B
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 1282 quarter by quarter

B6 1282 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 90.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 54.4%, a swing of 36 points on roughly 83 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 202592 flights54.4%
Oct–Dec 202581 flights67.5%
Jan–Mar 202676 flights84.1%
Apr–Jun 202684 flights90.5%

Scale runs 45% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 1282 did best on Monday at 79.2% on time and worst on Tuesday at 61.2%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 1282 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 6,032 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
47%
National Airspace System
40%
Carrier
13%

47% 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 6,032 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 47 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 6,032 delay minutes reported on B6 1282.

Cancellations run at 3.00%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.8% 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.

Every one of the 333 flights under B6 1282 in the data flew RIC to BOS. 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. 333 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 1282

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 1282: 3.00% of its 333 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.

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.

Key figures