Flight number record

B6 472

JetBlue Airways · Fort Lauderdale to New York

Route: FLL → LGA
Departs: 06:37
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 472, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 472 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so B6 472 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 60 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 338 completed flights

Avg delay

72 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.26%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

13.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.3% 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 472 flies

B6 472 flies FLL to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:37, used on 70 of 361 flights, with 17:05 (47 flights) and 17:08 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:3770 flights19.4%
Departs 17:0547 flights13.0%
Departs 17:0841 flights11.4%

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 06:37 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and B6 472 runs 18 points worse at 71.6%. 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 472 next to FLL to LGA

Every carrier on FLL to LGA combined arrived on time 66.3% of the time across 4,653 flights, so B6 472 is 5 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 1,598 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 63.5% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, close to this flight's figure.

B6 472 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 472thin sample	361	71.6%	72 min	5.26%	C−
All JetBlue Airways on FLL–LGA	1,598	63.5%	68 min	3.44%	D−
All carriers on FLL–LGA	4,653	66.3%	74 min	4.26%	C−
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 472 quarter by quarter

B6 472 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 87.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 49.4%, a swing of 38 points on roughly 90 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 202588 flights49.4%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights83.0%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights65.9%

Scale runs 40% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 472 did best on Saturday at 78.7% on time and worst on Tuesday at 62.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 472 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 55% of the 6,905 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
55%
Late-arriving aircraft
27%
Carrier
15%
Extreme weather
2%

55% 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 3,813 minutes out of 6,905, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,905 delay minutes reported on B6 472.

Cancellations run at 5.26%, 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 13.3% 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 1,076 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 361 flights under B6 472 in the data flew FLL to LGA. 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. 361 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 472

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 472: 5.26% of its 361 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.

Key figures