Flight number record
B6 1282
JetBlue Airways · Richmond to Boston
- Route
- RIC → BOS
- Departs
- 09:38
- Flights
- 333
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1282, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 1282 lands a B−, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 333 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.90%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 333 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 1282 flies
B6 1282 flies RIC to BOS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:38, used on 82 of 333 flights, with 11:00 (38 flights) and 14:24 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 09:3882 flights24.6%
- Departs 11:0038 flights11.4%
- Departs 14:2436 flights10.8%
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 09:38 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and B6 1282 runs 4 points worse at 80.0%. 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 1282 next to RIC to BOS
Every carrier on RIC to BOS combined arrived on time 77.3% of the time across 1,693 flights, so B6 1282 is 3 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 758 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.0% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 1282thin sample | 333 | 80.0% | 84 min | 3.90% | B− |
| All JetBlue Airways on RIC–BOS | 758 | 74.0% | 90 min | 4.22% | C− |
| All carriers on RIC–BOS | 1,693 | 77.3% | 81 min | 3.66% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | 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 Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.5%, a swing of 23 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202581 flights67.5%
- Jan–Mar 202676 flights84.1%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights90.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights89.7%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 1282 ranged from 72.3% on Tuesday to 83.7% on Monday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 1282 runs when it is late
B6 1282 often beats the schedule: 97 of 320 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 64 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early97 flights30.3%
- Within 15 min159 flights49.7%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.9%
- 30–59 min late21 flights6.6%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 320 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 59 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 5 made it up before arrival. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 1282
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 July 2026, 23 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2026 | 23 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 February 2026 | 6 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 September 2025 | 5 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 March 2026 | 3 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 January 2026 | 2 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why B6 1282 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 5,372 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,372 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 41 to one. The split is drawn from 5,372 delay minutes reported on B6 1282.
Cancellations run at 3.90%, 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
6.6% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
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: 3.90% of its 333 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.
Related
Where to go next
- RIC to BOS, every carrier and departure
- BOS to RIC, the return direction
- Republic Airways 5697 on the same route87.0%
- Republic Airways 5665 on the same route61.7%
- Boston Logan International (BOS) delay statistics
- JetBlue Airways on-time record
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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.