Flight number record
B6 226
JetBlue Airways · Tampa to New York
- Route
- TPA → JFK
- Departs
- 14:00
- Flights
- 273
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 226, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 226 draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 273 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so B6 226 runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 113 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 247 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
9.52%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
18.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 273 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When B6 226 flies
B6 226 flies TPA to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:00, used on 37 of 273 flights, with 18:20 (30 flights) and 15:56 (30 flights) next.
- Departs 14:0037 flights13.6%
- Departs 18:2030 flights11.0%
- Departs 15:5630 flights11.0%
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 14:00 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and B6 226 runs 6 points worse at 66.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
B6 226 next to TPA to JFK
Every carrier on TPA to JFK combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 2,307 flights, so B6 226 is 13 points behind it. JetBlue flew 1,116 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.4% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 226thin sample | 273 | 66.0% | 84 min | 9.52% | C− |
| All JetBlue Airways on TPA–JFK | 1,116 | 74.4% | 75 min | 6.00% | C− |
| All carriers on TPA–JFK | 2,307 | 78.6% | 77 min | 4.16% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 226 quarter by quarter
B6 226 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 71.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 37.0%, a swing of 34 points on roughly 68 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 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202536 flights69.4%
- Jan–Mar 202664 flights66.7%
- Apr–Jun 202681 flights71.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights37.0%
Scale runs 30% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 226 did best on Friday at 75.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 54.3%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 226 runs when it is late
When B6 226 is late it tends to be very late: 45 of its 84 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 17 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early54 flights21.9%
- Within 15 min109 flights44.1%
- 15–29 min late27 flights10.9%
- 30–59 min late12 flights4.9%
- 1–2 hours late28 flights11.3%
- 2+ hours late17 flights6.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 247 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 81 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 14 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 226
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 August 2026, 6 hours 36 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2026 | 6 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 June 2026 | 6 hours 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 17 August 2026 | 4 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 May 2026 | 4 hours 37 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 August 2026 | 4 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why B6 226 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 7,067 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%National Airspace System
- 26%Carrier
- 0%Security
- 0%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,067 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 43 to one. The split is drawn from 7,067 delay minutes reported on B6 226.
Cancellations run at 9.52%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in ten 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
18.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 273 flights under B6 226 in the data flew TPA 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. 273 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 226
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 226: 9.52% of its 273 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to TPA, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2475 on the same route93.6%
- JetBlue Airways 126 on the same route81.5%
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.