Flight number record

B6 2902

JetBlue Airways · New York to Buffalo

Route: JFK → BUF
Departs: 13:30
Flights: 268
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 2902, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 2902 earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 268 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, B6 2902's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 254 completed flights

Avg delay

58 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.22%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 268 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 2902 flies

B6 2902 flies JFK to BUF without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:30, used on 55 of 268 flights, with 10:25 (43 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:3055 flights20.5%
Departs 10:2543 flights16.0%

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 13:30 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and B6 2902 runs 7 points better at 85.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

B6 2902 next to JFK to BUF

Every carrier on JFK to BUF combined arrived on time 75.0% of the time across 1,218 flights, so B6 2902 is 10 points ahead of it. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 13 points.

B6 2902 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 2902thin sample	268	85.4%	58 min	5.22%	A−
All JetBlue Airways on JFK–BUF	1,218	75.0%	88 min	4.52%	B−
All carriers on JFK–BUF	1,218	75.0%	88 min	4.52%	B−
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 2902 quarter by quarter

B6 2902 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 91.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 79.5%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 67 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 flights91.0%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights79.5%
Jan–Mar 202642 flights89.2%
Apr–Jun 202642 flights82.5%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 2902 ranged from 78.8% on Sunday to 88.9% on Saturday. With about 38 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why B6 2902 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 2,158 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
45%
Carrier
26%
National Airspace System
19%
Extreme weather
10%

45% 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 2,158 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 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 2,158 delay minutes reported on B6 2902.

Cancellations run at 5.22%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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

5.1% 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 same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including FLL to JFK (5), but none flew often enough under B6 2902 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to JFK to BUF only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 268 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 2902

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 2902: 5.22% of its 268 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 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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