Flight number record
B6 224
JetBlue Airways · Los Angeles to New York
- Route
- LAX → JFK
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 327
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 224, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 224 lands a B−, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. 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 is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 327 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 314 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.67%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
8.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 327 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% 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 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 327 flights, with 13:25 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:0098 flights30.0%
- Departs 13:2546 flights14.1%
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 06:00 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 9 points worse at 79.9%. 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 224 next to LAX to JFK
Every carrier on LAX to JFK combined arrived on time 79.1% of the time across 10,287 flights, so B6 224 is about level with it. JetBlue flew 3,485 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.3% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 224thin sample | 327 | 79.9% | 68 min | 3.67% | B− |
| All JetBlue Airways on LAX–JFK | 3,485 | 79.3% | 71 min | 2.24% | B |
| All carriers on LAX–JFK | 10,287 | 79.1% | 92 min | 2.04% | B |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 234,468 | 72.7% | 76 min | 2.56% | 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 2025 at 63.3%, a swing of 26 points on roughly 82 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 202583 flights63.3%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights82.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.0%
- Apr–Jun 202664 flights89.1%
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 224 did best on Wednesday at 89.6% on time and worst on Monday at 68.1%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why B6 224 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 46% of the 4,297 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.
- 46%National Airspace System
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Carrier
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 4,297 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 36 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 4,297 delay minutes reported on B6 224.
Cancellations run at 3.67%, against 1.81% 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
8.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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 327 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. 327 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: 3.67% of its 327 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
- Delta Air Lines 960 on the same route84.4%
- American Airlines 118 on the same route85.8%
- Delta Air Lines 934 on the same route89.4%
- Delta Air Lines 958 on the same route81.5%
- American Airlines 274 on the same route60.8%
- American Airlines 307 on the same route75.4%
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.