Carrier route record
B6ATL→JFK
JetBlue Airways · Atlanta to New York
- Flights
- 1,114
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 26%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on ATL to JFK carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 5.8% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about seven flights in ten arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,114 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 2,445 at 78.4% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on ATL to JFK runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 87 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,046 completed flights
Avg delay
93 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.83%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.6%
Every carrier on ATL to JFK, 4,218 flights
These figures cover 1,114 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on ATL to JFK
JetBlue flew 1,114 of the 4,218 flights on ATL to JFK, about 26% of it. Its 68.6% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 78.4% to JetBlue at 68.6%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 78.4% of the time; Frontier Airlines manages 70.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 659 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 2,445 | 78.4% | 73 min | 1.55% | B |
| Frontier Airlines | 659 | 70.1% | 81 min | 2.28% | C |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 1,114 | 68.6% | 93 min | 5.83% | C− |
Delta leads Frontier by 8 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on ATL to JFK
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Departure window
When JetBlue runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 32 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am254 flights83.4%
- 8am–11am163 flights73.7%
- 11am–2pm237 flights71.9%
- 2pm–5pm146 flights59.7%
- 5pm–8pm260 flights56.1%
- 8pm–5am54 flights51.9%
Scale runs 45% to 90%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 51.9% on time, against 83.4% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 260 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on ATL to JFK through the year
December is the weak month at 54.7% on time, against 82.0% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. November was the busiest month here, with 119 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 80.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 61.8%, a spread of 19 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on ATL to JFK runs when it is late
The 328 late arrivals split 87 under half an hour, 80 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 161 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early245 flights23.4%
- Within 15 min473 flights45.2%
- 15–29 min late87 flights8.3%
- 30–59 min late80 flights7.6%
- 1–2 hours late91 flights8.7%
- 2+ hours late70 flights6.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,046 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
46 of 332 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 42 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on ATL to JFK
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 January 2026, 21 hours 1 minute 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 3 January 2026 | 21 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 29 December 2025 | 19 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 September 2025 | 13 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 September 2025 | 9 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 December 2025 | 9 hours 15 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 31,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 31,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 47 to one. The split is drawn from 30,511 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 83.4% on time here.
Cancellations run at 5.83%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen 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 stage length
What a delay here costs
15.4% 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 760 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.
The return leg runs 66.5% on time across 1,113 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,114 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking JetBlue on ATL to JFK
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.83% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,046 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ATL to JFK, every carrier
- JetBlue on JFK to ATL, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on ATL to JFK78.4%
- Frontier Airlines on ATL to JFK70.1%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.