Flight number record

B6 1354

JetBlue Airways · Washington to Boston

Route: DCA → BOS
Departs: 16:59
Flights: 329
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1354, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 1354 earns an F, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 45.9% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 32 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 329 flights, with a median arrival 21 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so B6 1354 runs 32 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 317 extra late arrivals.

On time

45.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights

Avg delay

93 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.74%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

26.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 329 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 26.6% 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 1354 flies

B6 1354 flies DCA to BOS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:59, used on 70 of 329 flights, with 15:45 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:5970 flights21.3%
Departs 15:4549 flights14.9%

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 16:59 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and B6 1354 runs 27 points worse at 45.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

B6 1354 next to DCA to BOS

Every carrier on DCA to BOS combined arrived on time 71.4% of the time across 9,081 flights, so B6 1354 is 26 points behind it. JetBlue flew 2,633 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 65.8% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 27 points.

B6 1354 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 1354thin sample	329	45.9%	93 min	2.74%	F
All JetBlue Airways on DCA–BOS	2,633	65.8%	90 min	3.91%	C−
All carriers on DCA–BOS	9,081	71.4%	80 min	3.88%	C−
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 1354 quarter by quarter

B6 1354 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 54.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 39.5%, a swing of 15 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 flights45.5%
Oct–Dec 202582 flights39.5%
Jan–Mar 202677 flights44.6%
Apr–Jun 202678 flights54.5%

Scale runs 30% to 60%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 1354 did best on Wednesday at 54.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 26.5%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 28 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 1354 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 44% of the 16,000 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.

National Airspace System
44%
Late-arriving aircraft
39%
Carrier
16%
Extreme weather
1%

39% 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 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 29 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 16,017 delay minutes reported on B6 1354.

Cancellations run at 2.74%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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. 26.6% 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 329 flights under B6 1354 in the data flew DCA 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. 329 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 1354

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 1354: 2.74% of its 329 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.

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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