Carrier route record
B6BOS→RIC
JetBlue Airways · Boston to Richmond
- Flights
- 757
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 45%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on BOS to RIC carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.0% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four 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 757 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate JetBlue on BOS to RIC from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
73.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 726 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.96%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.7%
Every carrier on BOS to RIC, 1,691 flights
These figures cover 757 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.7% 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 BOS to RIC
JetBlue flew 757 of the 1,691 flights on BOS to RIC, about 45% of it. Its 73.4% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 79.3% to JetBlue at 73.4%.
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 | 934 | 79.3% | 62 min | 3.43% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 757 | 73.4% | 65 min | 3.96% | C− |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on BOS to RIC
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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 half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am146 flights93.4%
- 8am–11am139 flights82.0%
- 11am–2pm59 flights75.5%
- 2pm–5pm190 flights61.2%
- 5pm–8pm96 flights62.4%
- 8pm–5am127 flights67.2%
Scale runs 55% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.4% of the time, against 61.2% for the afternoon window. That is 32 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 190 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on BOS to RIC through the year
January is the weak month at 56.1% on time, against 92.1% in June. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 90 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 83.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 64.9%, a spread of 19 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on BOS to RIC runs when it is late
JetBlue on BOS to RIC often beats the schedule: 233 of 726 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 193 late arrivals split 53 under half an hour, 55 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 85 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early233 flights32.1%
- Within 15 min300 flights41.3%
- 15–29 min late53 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late55 flights7.6%
- 1–2 hours late63 flights8.7%
- 2+ hours late22 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 726 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
42 of 212 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 23 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on BOS to RIC
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 December 2025, 7 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across December, January, July and August, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 December 2025 | 7 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 January 2026 | 5 hours 30 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 21 July 2026 | 4 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 January 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 24 August 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 to one. The split is drawn from 12,498 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 93.4% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.96%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
11.7% 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.
At 473 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 74.0% on time across 758 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 757 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 BOS to RIC
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.96% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 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. 726 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.