Flight number record
B6 534
JetBlue Airways · Tampa to Hartford
- Route
- TPA → BDL
- Departs
- 16:32
- Flights
- 250
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 534, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 534 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 250 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so B6 534 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 88 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 247 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.80%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
10.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 250 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% 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 534 flies
B6 534 flies TPA to BDL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:32, used on 45 of 250 flights, with 19:20 (37 flights) and 18:00 (30 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 16:3245 flights18.0%
- Departs 19:2037 flights14.8%
- Departs 18:0030 flights12.0%
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 16:32 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and B6 534 runs 4 points worse at 68.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
B6 534 next to TPA to BDL
Every carrier on TPA to BDL combined arrived on time 72.7% of the time across 705 flights, so B6 534 is 4 points behind it. JetBlue flew 387 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.0% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 534thin sample | 250 | 68.8% | 70 min | 0.80% | C+ |
| All JetBlue Airways on TPA–BDL | 387 | 71.0% | 71 min | 1.81% | C |
| All carriers on TPA–BDL | 705 | 72.7% | 60 min | 1.56% | C |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 234,468 | 72.7% | 76 min | 2.56% | C |
Across the year
B6 534 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter B6 534 held fairly steady: 67.5% in Jul–Sep 2025, 63.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 69.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202584 flights67.5%
- Oct–Dec 202527 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202648 flights63.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights69.2%
Scale runs 55% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 534 did best on Saturday at 78.4% on time and worst on Thursday at 59.5%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why B6 534 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 5,384 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.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
55% 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 5,384 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 5,384 delay minutes reported on B6 534.
Cancellations are rare at 0.80%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
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. 10.9% 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 1,111 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 250 flights under B6 534 in the data flew TPA to BDL. 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. 250 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 534
For a booking, read B6 534 as 68.8% on time with 0.80% cancelled over 250 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
- Every JetBlue Airways flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.