Carrier route record
B6FLL→RIC
JetBlue Airways · Fort Lauderdale to Richmond
- Flights
- 601
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 74%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on FLL to RIC draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 601 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on FLL to RIC runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 122 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 582 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.66%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
64.6%
Every carrier on FLL to RIC, 809 flights
These figures cover 601 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.8% 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 FLL to RIC
JetBlue flew 601 of the 809 flights on FLL to RIC, most of the route. Its 65.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 64.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from JetBlue at 65.1% to Spirit at 63.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 601 | 65.1% | 58 min | 2.66% | C |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 208 | 63.1% | 88 min | 4.81% | D− |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on FLL 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 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am11 flights—
- 8am–11am101 flights84.7%
- 11am–2pm49 flights67.4%
- 2pm–5pm77 flights58.1%
- 5pm–8pm10 flights—
- 8pm–5am353 flights60.3%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 84.7% of the time, against 58.1% for the afternoon window. That is 27 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 353 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on FLL to RIC through the year
May is the best month on the calendar at 87.0% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. July was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 73.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 52.2%, a spread of 21 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on FLL to RIC runs when it is late
The 203 late arrivals split 70 under half an hour, 70 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 63 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early120 flights20.6%
- Within 15 min259 flights44.5%
- 15–29 min late70 flights12.0%
- 30–59 min late70 flights12.0%
- 1–2 hours late41 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late22 flights3.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 582 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
27 of 207 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 23 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on FLL to RIC
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 April 2026, 5 hours 1 minute behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2026 | 5 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 August 2026 | 4 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 December 2025 | 4 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 December 2025 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 February 2026 | 3 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
52% 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 36 to one. The split is drawn from 11,727 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,248 of the 12,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.66%, 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 stage length
What a delay here costs
10.8% 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 806 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 78.1% on time across 600 flights, 13 points above 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 13 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 601 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 FLL to RIC
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 601 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 65.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 582 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.