Flight number record

B6 226

JetBlue Airways · Tampa to New York

Route: TPA → JFK
Departs: 14:00
Flights: 273
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 226, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 226 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 273 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so B6 226 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 87 extra late arrivals.

On time

68.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 254 completed flights

Avg delay

81 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.96%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

16.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 273 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.1% 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 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 14:40 (33 flights) and 14:39 (30 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:0037 flights13.6%
Departs 14:4033 flights12.1%
Departs 14:3930 flights11.0%

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 14:00 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and B6 226 runs 4 points worse at 68.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

B6 226 next to TPA to JFK

Every carrier on TPA to JFK combined arrived on time 80.2% of the time across 2,298 flights, so B6 226 is 11 points behind it. JetBlue flew 1,046 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.1% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 4 points.

B6 226 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 226thin sample	273	68.9%	81 min	6.96%	C−
All JetBlue Airways on TPA–JFK	1,046	77.1%	74 min	4.02%	B−
All carriers on TPA–JFK	2,298	80.2%	76 min	3.09%	B−
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 226 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter B6 226 held fairly steady: 68.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 69.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 66.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 71.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights68.3%
Oct–Dec 202536 flights69.4%
Jan–Mar 202664 flights66.7%
Apr–Jun 202681 flights71.1%

Scale runs 60% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 226 did best on Friday at 79.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 57.1%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 226 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 45% of the 6,382 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.

National Airspace System
45%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
Carrier
22%
Extreme weather
1%

45% 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 2,875 minutes out of 6,382, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,382 delay minutes reported on B6 226.

Cancellations run at 6.96%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 16.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. 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 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: 6.96% of its 273 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.

Where to go next

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.

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