Flight number record
B6 225
JetBlue Airways · New York to Tampa
- Route
- JFK → TPA
- Departs
- 20:29
- Flights
- 331
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 225, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 225 lands a B−, about a point 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 331 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
78.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.02%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
8.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 331 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% 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 225 flies
B6 225 flies JFK to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:29, used on 39 of 331 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 20:2939 flights11.8%
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 20:29 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and B6 225 runs 8 points better at 78.8%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
B6 225 next to JFK to TPA
Every carrier on JFK to TPA combined arrived on time 77.1% of the time across 2,301 flights, so B6 225 is 2 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 1,049 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.9% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 225thin sample | 331 | 78.8% | 72 min | 3.02% | B− |
| All JetBlue Airways on JFK–TPA | 1,049 | 75.9% | 74 min | 3.91% | B− |
| All carriers on JFK–TPA | 2,301 | 77.1% | 75 min | 3.09% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 234,468 | 72.7% | 76 min | 2.56% | C |
Across the year
B6 225 quarter by quarter
B6 225 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 85.5% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 70.6%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 83 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 202592 flights83.1%
- Oct–Dec 202583 flights73.8%
- Jan–Mar 202673 flights70.6%
- Apr–Jun 202683 flights85.5%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 225 did best on Tuesday at 88.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 63.8%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why B6 225 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 4,905 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.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
47% 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 4,905 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 4,905 delay minutes reported on B6 225.
Cancellations run at 3.02%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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
8.4% 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.
The 1,005 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 331 flights under B6 225 in the data flew JFK to TPA. 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. 331 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 225
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 225: 3.02% of its 331 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
- JFK to TPA, every carrier and departure
- TPA to JFK, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1636 on the same route74.9%
- Delta Air Lines 2042 on the same route87.2%
- JetBlue Airways 2725 on the same route77.5%
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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.