Flight number record
B6 1868
JetBlue Airways · Daytona Beach to New York
- Route
- DAB → JFK
- Departs
- 11:30
- Flights
- 271
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1868, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 1868 earns a B−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, B6 1868's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 73 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 259 completed flights
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.43%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 271 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 1868 flies
B6 1868 flies DAB to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:30, used on 34 of 271 flights, with 11:10 (32 flights) and 10:22 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 11:3034 flights12.5%
- Departs 11:1032 flights11.8%
- Departs 10:2232 flights11.8%
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 11:30 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and B6 1868 runs 6 points better at 84.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
B6 1868 next to DAB to JFK
Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 1868thin sample | 271 | 84.6% | 86 min | 4.43% | B− |
| All JetBlue Airways on DAB–JFKthin sample | 271 | 84.6% | 86 min | 4.43% | B− |
| All carriers on DAB–JFKthin sample | 271 | 84.6% | 86 min | 4.43% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 1868 quarter by quarter
B6 1868 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 92.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 80.7%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 90 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 202528 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.7%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 1868 did best on Tuesday at 94.4% on time and worst on Friday at 66.7%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 28 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 1868 runs when it is late
B6 1868 often beats the schedule: 140 of 259 completed flights, 54%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 40 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early140 flights54.1%
- Within 15 min79 flights30.5%
- 15–29 min late8 flights3.1%
- 30–59 min late14 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights4.2%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 259 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 50 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 1868
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 April 2026, 11 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2026 | 11 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 August 2026 | 5 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 January 2026 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 February 2026 | 2 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 January 2026 | 2 hours 30 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why B6 1868 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 77% of the 3,430 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 77%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
77% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,430 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 77 to one. The split is drawn from 3,430 delay minutes reported on B6 1868.
Cancellations run at 4.43%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
6.9% 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.
The 891 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including BUF to JFK (1), but none flew often enough under B6 1868 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DAB to JFK only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 271 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 1868
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 1868: 4.43% of its 271 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
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
- JetBlue Airways on-time record
- Every JetBlue Airways flight number with a 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.