Flight number record
B6 1698
JetBlue Airways · Fort Lauderdale to Atlanta
- Route
- FLL → ATL
- Departs
- 09:00
- Flights
- 289
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1698, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 1698 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 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 289 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
Key figures
On time
73.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 282 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.42%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 289 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
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Schedule
When B6 1698 flies
B6 1698 flies FLL to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:00, used on 90 of 289 flights.
- Departs 09:0090 flights31.1%
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 09:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and B6 1698 runs 11 points worse at 73.4%. 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 1698 next to FLL to ATL
Every carrier on FLL to ATL combined arrived on time 71.0% of the time across 7,366 flights, so B6 1698 is 2 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 887 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 57.1% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 1698thin sample | 289 | 73.4% | 49 min | 2.42% | C |
| All JetBlue Airways on FLL–ATL | 887 | 57.1% | 68 min | 3.38% | D− |
| All carriers on FLL–ATL | 7,366 | 71.0% | 74 min | 2.59% | C |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 1698 quarter by quarter
B6 1698 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 79.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 67.6%, a swing of 12 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.
- Oct–Dec 202560 flights71.2%
- Jan–Mar 202676 flights67.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights73.8%
Scale runs 60% to 85%.
By weekday, B6 1698 did best on Monday at 80.5% on time and worst on Thursday at 62.5%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 1698 runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 39 of the 75 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 18 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early34 flights12.1%
- Within 15 min173 flights61.3%
- 15–29 min late39 flights13.8%
- 30–59 min late18 flights6.4%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.9%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 282 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 52 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 30 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at ATL.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 1698
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 July 2026, 3 hours 38 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2026 | 3 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 July 2026 | 3 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 December 2025 | 3 hours 5 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 4 June 2026 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 February 2026 | 2 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why B6 1698 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 3,640 reported delay minutes.
- 38%National Airspace System
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
38% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,387 minutes out of 3,640, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,640 delay minutes reported on B6 1698.
Cancellations sit at 2.42% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.4% 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 roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 581 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.
Every one of the 289 flights under B6 1698 in the data flew FLL to ATL. 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. 289 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 1698
For a booking, read B6 1698 as 73.4% on time with 2.42% cancelled over 289 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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.