Flight number record
B6 22
JetBlue Airways · West Palm Beach to Boston
- Route
- PBI → BOS
- Departs
- 16:05
- Flights
- 290
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 22, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 22 earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 51.3% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 26 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average a little over an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 290 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so B6 22 runs 26 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 260 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
51.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 279 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.79%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
18.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 290 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When B6 22 flies
B6 22 flies PBI to BOS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:05, used on 31 of 290 flights.
- Departs 16:0531 flights10.7%
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 16:05 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and B6 22 runs 21 points worse at 51.3%. 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 22 next to PBI to BOS
Every carrier on PBI to BOS combined arrived on time 65.6% of the time across 2,038 flights, so B6 22 is 14 points behind it. JetBlue flew 1,502 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 65.6% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight trails by 20 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 22thin sample | 290 | 51.3% | 72 min | 3.79% | F− |
| All JetBlue Airways on PBI–BOS | 1,502 | 65.6% | 76 min | 3.86% | C− |
| All carriers on PBI–BOS | 2,038 | 65.6% | 80 min | 3.73% | C− |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 22 quarter by quarter
B6 22 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 56.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 44.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 73 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 202530 flights53.3%
- Oct–Dec 202572 flights44.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights56.5%
- Apr–Jun 202667 flights54.5%
- Jul–Sep 202631 flights—
Scale runs 35% to 60%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 22 did best on Saturday at 70.6% on time and worst on Monday at 40.5%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 22 runs when it is late
The 136 late arrivals split 37 under half an hour, 47 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 52 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early56 flights20.1%
- Within 15 min87 flights31.2%
- 15–29 min late37 flights13.3%
- 30–59 min late47 flights16.8%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights12.2%
- 2+ hours late18 flights6.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 279 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 135 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 15 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 16 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 BOS.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 22
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 February 2026, 14 hours 11 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across February, October, January, July and April, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 February 2026 | 14 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 October 2025 | 5 hours 22 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 27 January 2026 | 4 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 July 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 April 2026 | 3 hours 39 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why B6 22 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 9,726 reported delay minutes.
- 40%National Airspace System
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,726 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 to one. The split is drawn from 9,726 delay minutes reported on B6 22.
Cancellations run at 3.79%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
18.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,197 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 290 flights under B6 22 in the data flew PBI 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. 290 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 22
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 22: 3.79% of its 290 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- PBI to BOS, every carrier and departure
- BOS to PBI, the return direction
- JetBlue Airways 322 on the same route82.7%
- Palm Beach International (PBI) delay statistics
- Boston Logan International (BOS) delay statistics
- JetBlue Airways on-time record
- Every JetBlue Airways flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.