Flight number record

B6 2433

JetBlue Airways · Washington to West Palm Beach

Route: DCA → PBI
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 271
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 2433, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 2433 lands a B, 3 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 about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

80.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 266 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.48%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 271 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.

Schedule

When B6 2433 flies

B6 2433 flies DCA to PBI without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 101 of 271 flights, with 07:00 (33 flights) and 06:15 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00101 flights37.3%
Departs 07:0033 flights12.2%
Departs 06:1532 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 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 2433 runs 9 points worse at 80.5%. 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 2433 next to DCA to PBI

Every carrier on DCA to PBI combined arrived on time 73.9% of the time across 1,796 flights, so B6 2433 is 7 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 733 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 68.9% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

B6 2433 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 2433thin sample	271	80.5%	59 min	1.48%	B
All JetBlue Airways on DCA–PBI	733	68.9%	79 min	1.50%	C
All carriers on DCA–PBI	1,796	73.9%	75 min	1.67%	C
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 2433 quarter by quarter

B6 2433 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 90.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 70.0%, a swing of 20 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 202572 flights70.0%
Oct–Dec 202539 flights84.6%
Jan–Mar 202669 flights75.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 2433 ranged from 76.3% on Tuesday to 86.8% on Thursday. With about 39 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why B6 2433 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 58% of the 3,060 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.

Carrier
58%
National Airspace System
25%
Late-arriving aircraft
16%
Security
1%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,783 of the 3,060 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,060 delay minutes reported on B6 2433.

Cancellations sit at 1.48% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.37%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.3% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 857 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.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including MCO to SJU (12), but none flew often enough under B6 2433 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DCA to PBI only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 271 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 2433

For a booking, read B6 2433 as 80.5% on time with 1.48% cancelled over 271 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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