Flight number record

B6 1529

JetBlue Airways · New York to Fort Myers

Route: JFK → RSW
Departs: 06:30
Flights: 287
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1529, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 1529 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 287 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, B6 1529's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 91 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 279 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.74%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 287 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 1529 flies

B6 1529 flies JFK to RSW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:30, used on 87 of 287 flights, with 07:29 (49 flights) and 08:29 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:3087 flights30.3%
Departs 07:2949 flights17.1%
Departs 08:2941 flights14.3%

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 06:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and B6 1529 runs 3 points worse at 86.7%. 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 1529 next to JFK to RSW

Every carrier on JFK to RSW combined arrived on time 78.8% of the time across 1,281 flights, so B6 1529 is 8 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 809 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.4% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 14 points.

B6 1529 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 1529thin sample	287	86.7%	59 min	1.74%	A
All JetBlue Airways on JFK–RSW	809	73.4%	73 min	3.58%	C−
All carriers on JFK–RSW	1,281	78.8%	72 min	3.90%	B−
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 1529 quarter by quarter

B6 1529 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 77.2%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 72 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 flights77.2%
Oct–Dec 202535 flights94.1%
Jan–Mar 202669 flights84.1%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.6%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 1529 did best on Friday at 92.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 77.5%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 1529 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 60% of the 2,175 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.

Carrier
60%
National Airspace System
21%
Late-arriving aircraft
18%
Security
1%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,299 of the 2,175 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,175 delay minutes reported on B6 1529.

Cancellations sit at 1.74% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.05%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.0% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,074 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

Every one of the 287 flights under B6 1529 in the data flew JFK to RSW. 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. 287 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 1529

For a booking, read B6 1529 as 86.7% on time with 1.74% cancelled over 287 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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