Flight number record
B6 994
JetBlue Airways · Denver to Boston
- Route
- DEN → BOS
- Departs
- 22:39
- Flights
- 276
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 994, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 994 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 276 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so B6 994 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 74 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 272 completed flights
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.45%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
16.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 276 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.9% 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 994 flies
B6 994 flies DEN to BOS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:39, used on 80 of 276 flights, with 23:59 (59 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 22:3980 flights29.0%
- Departs 23:5959 flights21.4%
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 22:39 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and B6 994 runs level with that at 70.2%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
B6 994 next to DEN to BOS
Every carrier on DEN to BOS combined arrived on time 71.4% of the time across 3,903 flights, so B6 994 is about level with it. JetBlue flew 682 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 68.6% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 994thin sample | 276 | 70.2% | 86 min | 1.45% | C |
| All JetBlue Airways on DEN–BOS | 682 | 68.6% | 82 min | 2.05% | C |
| All carriers on DEN–BOS | 3,903 | 71.4% | 70 min | 1.18% | C |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 234,468 | 72.7% | 76 min | 2.56% | C |
Across the year
B6 994 quarter by quarter
B6 994 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 62.7%, a swing of 19 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 202579 flights68.8%
- Oct–Dec 202559 flights81.4%
- Jan–Mar 202653 flights62.7%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights68.2%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 994 did best on Saturday at 82.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 54.8%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 28 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why B6 994 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 79% of the 6,996 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.
- 79%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Carrier
- 3%National Airspace System
79% 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 6,996 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 79 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 6,996 delay minutes reported on B6 994.
Cancellations sit at 1.45% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 16.9% 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.
At 1,754 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
Every one of the 276 flights under B6 994 in the data flew DEN 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. 276 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 994
For a booking, B6 994 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 16.9% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to BOS, every carrier and departure
- BOS to DEN, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 499 on the same route75.2%
- United Airlines 558 on the same route90.5%
- JetBlue Airways 394 on the same route68.2%
- United Airlines 597 on the same route71.3%
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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.