Flight number record
B6 224
JetBlue Airways · Los Angeles to New York
- Route
- LAX → JFK
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 336
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 224, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 224 lands a B−, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 336 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 317 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.06%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 336 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 224 flies
B6 224 flies LAX to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 98 of 336 flights, with 13:25 (46 flights) next.
- Departs 06:0098 flights29.2%
- Departs 13:2546 flights13.7%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and B6 224 runs 10 points worse at 79.8%. 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 224 next to LAX to JFK
Every carrier on LAX to JFK combined arrived on time 77.5% of the time across 10,289 flights, so B6 224 is 2 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 3,479 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.9% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 224thin sample | 336 | 79.8% | 76 min | 5.06% | B− |
| All JetBlue Airways on LAX–JFK | 3,479 | 77.9% | 70 min | 3.48% | B− |
| All carriers on LAX–JFK | 10,289 | 77.5% | 90 min | 2.90% | B |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 224 quarter by quarter
B6 224 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 89.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 53.8%, a swing of 35 points on roughly 67 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 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights82.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.0%
- Apr–Jun 202664 flights89.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights53.8%
Scale runs 45% to 95%.
By weekday, B6 224 did best on Wednesday at 87.8% on time and worst on Monday at 67.4%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 224 runs when it is late
B6 224 often beats the schedule: 125 of 317 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 64 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early125 flights39.4%
- Within 15 min128 flights40.4%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.9%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.2%
- 2+ hours late17 flights5.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 317 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 57 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. In the other direction, 22 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 JFK.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 224
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 October 2025, 6 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 October 2025 | 6 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 July 2026 | 4 hours 57 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 31 October 2025 | 4 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 July 2026 | 3 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 July 2026 | 3 hours 41 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why B6 224 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 53% of the 4,867 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%National Airspace System
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%Carrier
53% 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 2,603 minutes out of 4,867, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,867 delay minutes reported on B6 224.
Cancellations run at 5.06%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
7.6% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 336 flights under B6 224 in the data flew LAX to JFK. 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. 336 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 224
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 224: 5.06% of its 336 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
- LAX to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to LAX, the return direction
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- American Airlines 118 on the same route83.6%
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- Delta Air Lines 958 on the same route82.4%
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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.