Flight number record
B6 533
JetBlue Airways · Hartford to Tampa
- Route
- BDL → TPA
- Departs
- 13:55
- Flights
- 357
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 533, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 533 lands a B, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four 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 357 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.96%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
6.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 357 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 533 flies
B6 533 flies BDL to TPA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:55, used on 64 of 357 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 13:5564 flights17.9%
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 13:55 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and B6 533 runs 3 points worse at 76.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
B6 533 next to BDL to TPA
Every carrier on BDL to TPA combined arrived on time 75.3% of the time across 705 flights, so B6 533 is about level with it. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 533thin sample | 357 | 76.1% | 62 min | 1.96% | B |
| All JetBlue Airways on BDL–TPA | 387 | 75.5% | 60 min | 2.33% | B |
| All carriers on BDL–TPA | 705 | 75.3% | 57 min | 1.56% | B |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 234,468 | 72.7% | 76 min | 2.56% | C |
Across the year
B6 533 quarter by quarter
B6 533 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.5% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 69.8%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 89 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 202584 flights80.5%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights76.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights69.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights77.8%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 533 did best on Wednesday at 83.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 67.3%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why B6 533 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 44% of the 5,129 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.
- 44%National Airspace System
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
44% 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 2,241 minutes out of 5,129, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 5,129 delay minutes reported on B6 533.
Cancellations sit at 1.96% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.56%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.0% 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 1,111 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 357 flights under B6 533 in the data flew BDL to TPA. 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. 357 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 533
For a booking, read B6 533 as 76.1% on time with 1.96% cancelled over 357 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- JetBlue Airways on-time record
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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.