Flight number record
B6 896
JetBlue Airways · Atlanta to Boston
- Route
- ATL → BOS
- Departs
- 12:06
- Flights
- 275
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 896, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 896 draws a D. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 275 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so B6 896 runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 146 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
62.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 268 completed flights
Avg delay
92 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
15.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 275 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When B6 896 flies
B6 896 flies ATL to BOS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:06, used on 48 of 275 flights, with 12:32 (44 flights) next.
- Departs 12:0648 flights17.5%
- Departs 12:3244 flights16.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 12:06 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and B6 896 runs 16 points worse at 62.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
B6 896 next to ATL to BOS
Every carrier on ATL to BOS combined arrived on time 72.8% of the time across 5,054 flights, so B6 896 is 10 points behind it. JetBlue flew 857 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 69.2% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight trails by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 896thin sample | 275 | 62.7% | 92 min | 2.55% | D |
| All JetBlue Airways on ATL–BOS | 857 | 69.2% | 92 min | 4.08% | C− |
| All carriers on ATL–BOS | 5,054 | 72.8% | 66 min | 2.30% | C |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 896 quarter by quarter
B6 896 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 79.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 43.8%, a swing of 36 points on roughly 69 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 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202564 flights43.8%
- Jan–Mar 202644 flights72.5%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights79.5%
- Jul–Sep 202653 flights64.0%
Scale runs 35% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 896 did best on Friday at 68.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 51.1%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 896 runs when it is late
The 100 late arrivals split 23 under half an hour, 35 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 42 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early62 flights23.1%
- Within 15 min106 flights39.6%
- 15–29 min late23 flights8.6%
- 30–59 min late35 flights13.1%
- 1–2 hours late28 flights10.4%
- 2+ hours late14 flights5.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 268 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 101 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 12 made it up before arrival. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 896
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 July 2026, 19 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2026 | 19 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 March 2026 | 16 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 November 2025 | 12 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 September 2025 | 9 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 November 2025 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why B6 896 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 9,203 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%National Airspace System
- 29%Carrier
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,203 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 to one. The split is drawn from 9,203 delay minutes reported on B6 896.
Cancellations run at 2.55%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
15.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 946 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.
Every one of the 275 flights under B6 896 in the data flew ATL to BOS. 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. 275 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 896
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 896: 2.55% of its 275 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.