Flight number record

B6 1286

JetBlue Airways · Pittsburgh to Boston

Route: PIT → BOS
Departs: 10:00
Flights: 327
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1286, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 1286 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 327 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, B6 1286's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 321 completed flights

Avg delay

86 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.83%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 327 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 1286 flies

B6 1286 flies PIT to BOS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:00, used on 73 of 327 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 10:0073 flights22.3%

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 10:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and B6 1286 runs level with that at 83.5%. 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 1286 next to PIT to BOS

Every carrier on PIT to BOS combined arrived on time 79.3% of the time across 2,151 flights, so B6 1286 is 4 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 1,007 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.5% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

B6 1286 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 1286thin sample	327	83.5%	86 min	1.83%	B
All JetBlue Airways on PIT–BOS	1,007	76.5%	85 min	3.18%	B−
All carriers on PIT–BOS	2,151	79.3%	74 min	2.84%	B
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 1286 quarter by quarter

B6 1286 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 74.2%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 82 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 flights90.1%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights82.0%
Jan–Mar 202668 flights74.2%
Apr–Jun 202678 flights85.3%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 1286 did best on Wednesday at 89.8% on time and worst on Tuesday at 77.1%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 1286 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 4,535 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
50%
Extreme weather
21%
National Airspace System
18%
Carrier
11%

Extreme weather accounts for 21% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,535 delay minutes reported on B6 1286.

Cancellations sit at 1.83% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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 327 flights under B6 1286 in the data flew PIT 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. 327 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 1286

For a booking, read B6 1286 as 83.5% on time with 1.83% cancelled over 327 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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