Carrier route record
B6FLL→TPA
JetBlue Airways · Fort Lauderdale to Tampa
- Flights
- 356
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 25%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on FLL to TPA draws a D. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 356 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on FLL to TPA runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 137 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights
Avg delay
95 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.81%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
72.2%
Every carrier on FLL to TPA, 1,412 flights
These figures cover 356 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 20.5% 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 TPA
JetBlue flew 356 of the 1,412 flights on FLL to TPA, about 25% of it. Its 63.6% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 72.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 86.8% to JetBlue at 63.6%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 364 | 86.8% | 53 min | 0.27% | A+ |
| Spirit Airlines | 692 | 68.8% | 69 min | 2.89% | C |
| JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample | 356 | 63.6% | 95 min | 2.81% | D |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on FLL to TPA
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Departure window
When JetBlue runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 356 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm62 flights64.9%
- 2pm–5pm23 flights—
- 5pm–8pm54 flights59.6%
- 8pm–5am217 flights64.8%
Scale runs 50% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 64.9% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 59.6%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 217 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on FLL to TPA through the year
- Oct–Dec 202528 flights—
- Jan–Mar 2026100 flights67.3%
- Apr–Jun 2026104 flights66.3%
- Jul–Sep 2026124 flights58.6%
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 63.6% on time across 356 flights.
Quarter by quarter JetBlue on FLL to TPA held fairly steady: 67.3% in Jan–Mar 2026, 66.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 58.6% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 81.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 44.0%, a spread of 37 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on FLL to TPA runs when it is late
When JetBlue on FLL to TPA is late it tends to be very late: 71 of its 126 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 32 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early71 flights20.5%
- Within 15 min149 flights43.1%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late34 flights9.8%
- 1–2 hours late39 flights11.3%
- 2+ hours late32 flights9.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 346 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 141 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on FLL to TPA
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 August 2026, 7 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across August, July and December, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 August 2026 | 7 hours 28 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 August 2026 | 5 hours 38 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 July 2026 | 5 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 December 2025 | 5 hours 33 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 10 July 2026 | 5 hours 25 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 7%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. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 11,928 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.81%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
20.5% 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 197 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 85.4% on time across 355 flights, 22 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 22 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 356 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 TPA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.81% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 346 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- FLL to TPA, every carrier
- JetBlue on TPA to FLL, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on FLL to TPA86.8%
- Spirit Airlines on FLL to TPA68.8%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- Tampa International (TPA) 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.