Carrier route record
B6BNA→JFK
JetBlue Airways · Nashville to New York
- Flights
- 549
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 39%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on BNA to JFK sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 549 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate JetBlue on BNA to JFK from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
73.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 508 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
7.10%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.4%
Every carrier on BNA to JFK, 1,416 flights
These figures cover 549 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
Fare search by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on BNA to JFK
JetBlue flew 549 of the 1,416 flights on BNA to JFK, about 39% of it. Its 73.8% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 78.0% to JetBlue at 73.8%.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 867 | 78.0% | 65 min | 3.11% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 549 | 73.8% | 74 min | 7.10% | C− |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on BNA to JFK
Timetable by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
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 41 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am95 flights90.0%
- 8am–11am104 flights83.0%
- 11am–2pm193 flights73.3%
- 2pm–5pm47 flights74.5%
- 5pm–8pm110 flights49.5%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 40% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 49.5% on time, against 90.0% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 193 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on BNA to JFK through the year
August is the worst month at 51.9% on time, 42 points below March, the best at 93.8%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. July was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 78.8% on time and Thursday the weakest at 65.3%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on BNA to JFK runs when it is late
JetBlue on BNA to JFK often beats the schedule: 166 of 508 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 133 late arrivals split 34 under half an hour, 43 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 56 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early166 flights32.7%
- Within 15 min209 flights41.1%
- 15–29 min late34 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late43 flights8.5%
- 1–2 hours late39 flights7.7%
- 2+ hours late17 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 508 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 130 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 20 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on BNA to JFK
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 August 2026, 15 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as national airspace system delay.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2026 | 15 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 March 2026 | 5 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 June 2026 | 4 hours 42 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 13 October 2025 | 3 hours 30 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 9 November 2025 | 3 hours 30 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 9,774 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%National Airspace System
- 18%Carrier
- 0%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,774 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 55 to one. The split is drawn from 9,774 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 90.0% on time here.
Cancellations run at 7.10%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
11.0% 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 765 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 70.8% on time across 547 flights, 3 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 549 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 JetBlue on BNA to JFK
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 7.10% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 508 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BNA to JFK, every carrier
- JetBlue on JFK to BNA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on BNA to JFK78.0%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Nashville International (BNA) 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.