Flight number record

B6 1962

JetBlue Airways · West Palm Beach to New York

Route: PBI → LGA
Departs: 16:41
Flights: 343
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1962, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 1962 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 343 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so B6 1962 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 164 extra late arrivals.

On time

61.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights

Avg delay

88 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.54%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

21.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 343 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 21.6% 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 1962 flies

B6 1962 flies PBI to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:41, used on 90 of 343 flights, with 17:46 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:4190 flights26.2%
Departs 17:4636 flights10.5%

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 16:41 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and B6 1962 runs 11 points worse at 61.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

B6 1962 next to PBI to LGA

Every carrier on PBI to LGA combined arrived on time 68.8% of the time across 3,199 flights, so B6 1962 is 8 points behind it. JetBlue flew 1,115 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 67.7% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 12 points.

B6 1962 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 1962thin sample	343	61.2%	88 min	5.54%	D−
All JetBlue Airways on PBI–LGA	1,115	67.7%	83 min	4.66%	C−
All carriers on PBI–LGA	3,199	68.8%	80 min	4.53%	C−
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 1962 quarter by quarter

B6 1962 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 68.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 52.1%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 86 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 202580 flights52.1%
Oct–Dec 202583 flights68.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights66.2%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights57.5%

Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 1962 did best on Friday at 72.0% on time and worst on Thursday at 49.0%. Each day rests on about 49 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 1962 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 48% of the 11,000 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
48%
Late-arriving aircraft
36%
Carrier
14%
Extreme weather
2%
Security
0%

36% 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 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 21 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 10,949 delay minutes reported on B6 1962.

Cancellations run at 5.54%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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. 21.6% 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.

The 1,035 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 343 flights under B6 1962 in the data flew PBI to LGA. 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. 343 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 1962

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 1962: 5.54% of its 343 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.

Key figures