Flight number record

B6 417

JetBlue Airways · Boston to New York

Route: BOS → JFK
Departs: 07:10
Flights: 307
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 417, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 417 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 a little over an hour. That rests on 307 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, B6 417's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 79 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 297 completed flights

Avg delay

71 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.26%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 307 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When B6 417 flies

B6 417 flies BOS to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:10, used on 55 of 307 flights, with 11:40 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:1055 flights17.9%
Departs 11:4036 flights11.7%

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 07:10 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and B6 417 runs 4 points worse at 85.5%. 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 417 next to BOS to JFK

Every carrier on BOS to JFK combined arrived on time 75.5% of the time across 5,738 flights, so B6 417 is 10 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 2,455 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.6% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 13 points.

B6 417 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 417thin sample	307	85.5%	71 min	3.26%	A−
All JetBlue Airways on BOS–JFK	2,455	73.6%	81 min	4.24%	C−
All carriers on BOS–JFK	5,738	75.5%	73 min	4.55%	B−
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 417 quarter by quarter

B6 417 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 95.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 74.3%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 77 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 flights95.7%
Oct–Dec 202585 flights84.0%
Jan–Mar 202680 flights74.3%
Apr–Jun 202650 flights86.0%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 417 did best on Wednesday at 91.1% on time and worst on Saturday at 76.3%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 417 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,055 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
37%
National Airspace System
33%
Carrier
29%
Extreme weather
2%

37% 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 3,055 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 22 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 3,055 delay minutes reported on B6 417.

Cancellations run at 3.26%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

Every one of the 307 flights under B6 417 in the data flew BOS 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. 307 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 417

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 417: 3.26% of its 307 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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