Flight number record
B6 225
JetBlue Airways · New York to Tampa
- Route
- JFK → TPA
- Departs
- 20:29
- Flights
- 331
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 225, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 225 lands a B−, 4 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 331 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
81.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 316 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.23%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 331 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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.
Fare search by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
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, with 06:20 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 20:2939 flights11.8%
- Departs 06:2034 flights10.3%
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 20:29 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and B6 225 runs 11 points better at 81.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Timetable by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Against the route
B6 225 next to JFK to TPA
Every carrier on JFK to TPA combined arrived on time 76.1% of the time across 2,310 flights, so B6 225 is 5 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 1,119 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.1% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 225thin sample | 331 | 81.0% | 79 min | 4.23% | B− |
| All JetBlue Airways on JFK–TPA | 1,119 | 73.1% | 79 min | 5.81% | C− |
| All carriers on JFK–TPA | 2,310 | 76.1% | 76 min | 4.16% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 225 quarter by quarter
B6 225 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 70.6%, a swing of 26 points on roughly 66 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202583 flights73.8%
- Jan–Mar 202673 flights70.6%
- Apr–Jun 202683 flights85.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights89.1%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
By weekday, B6 225 did best on Tuesday at 90.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 66.0%. Each day rests on about 47 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 225 runs when it is late
B6 225 often beats the schedule: 128 of 316 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early128 flights40.5%
- Within 15 min128 flights40.5%
- 15–29 min late16 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late19 flights6.0%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late10 flights3.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 316 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 65 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 225
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 November 2025, 6 hours 31 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2025 | 6 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 July 2026 | 6 hours 19 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 26 December 2025 | 5 hours 21 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 4 January 2026 | 4 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 November 2025 | 4 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why B6 225 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 4,735 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,735 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 4,735 delay minutes reported on B6 225.
Cancellations run at 4.23%, 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
7.9% 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.
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.
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: 4.23% 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 route73.3%
- Delta Air Lines 2042 on the same route87.7%
- JetBlue Airways 2725 on the same route77.2%
- Delta Air Lines 2093 on the same route78.0%
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
- Tampa International (TPA) 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.