Flight number record

B6 223

JetBlue Airways · New York to Los Angeles

Route: JFK → LAX
Departs: 06:55
Flights: 350
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 223, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 223 lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 350 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, B6 223's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 51 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 350 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 223 flies

B6 223 flies JFK to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:55, used on 64 of 350 flights, with 12:00 (58 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:5564 flights18.3%
Departs 12:0058 flights16.6%

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 06:55 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and B6 223 runs 7 points worse at 82.7%. 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 223 next to JFK to LAX

Every carrier on JFK to LAX combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 10,284 flights, so B6 223 is 5 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 3,486 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.6% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

B6 223 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 223thin sample	350	82.7%	49 min	2.00%	B
All JetBlue Airways on JFK–LAX	3,486	75.6%	69 min	2.01%	B
All carriers on JFK–LAX	10,284	77.6%	77 min	1.94%	B
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 223 quarter by quarter

B6 223 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 89.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.5%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 88 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 202588 flights89.7%
Oct–Dec 202588 flights82.6%
Jan–Mar 202685 flights77.5%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights80.9%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 223 did best on Monday at 92.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 68.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 223 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 56% of the 2,860 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
56%
Carrier
21%
Late-arriving aircraft
17%
Extreme weather
4%
Security
2%

56% 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 1,597 minutes out of 2,860, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,860 delay minutes reported on B6 223.

Cancellations sit at 2.00% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 2,475 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

Every one of the 350 flights under B6 223 in the data flew JFK to LAX. 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. 350 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 223

For a booking, read B6 223 as 82.7% on time with 2.00% cancelled over 350 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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