Carrier route record
B6FLL→RIC
JetBlue Airways · Fort Lauderdale to Richmond
- Flights
- 552
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 68%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 552 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so JetBlue on FLL to RIC runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 119 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 536 completed flights
Avg delay
59 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.36%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
65.8%
Every carrier on FLL to RIC, 810 flights
These figures cover 552 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.4% 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.
Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on FLL to RIC
JetBlue flew 552 of the 810 flights on FLL to RIC, most of the route. Its 65.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 65.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Spirit at 66.1% to JetBlue at 65.7%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 258 | 66.1% | 85 min | 3.88% | C− |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 552 | 65.7% | 59 min | 2.36% | C |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on FLL to RIC
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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am50 flights89.8%
- 11am–2pm49 flights67.4%
- 2pm–5pm90 flights57.5%
- 5pm–8pm10 flights—
- 8pm–5am353 flights64.5%
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 89.8% of the time, against 57.5% 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 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. December was the busiest month here, with 56 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 56.0%. 22 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 11,000 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.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
56% 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 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 28 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 10,850 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 89.8% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.36% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.54%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.4% 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.
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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.4% on time across 551 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. 552 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. 552 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 65.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 536 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- FLL to RIC, every carrier
- JetBlue on RIC to FLL, the return leg
- Spirit Airlines on FLL to RIC66.1%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.