Carrier route record
B6JFK→PHX
JetBlue Airways · New York to Phoenix
- Flights
- 531
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 18%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on JFK to PHX sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 531 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 1,524 at 82.0% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so JetBlue on JFK to PHX runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 46 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 515 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.82%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
77.9%
Every carrier on JFK to PHX, 2,972 flights
These figures cover 531 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.5% 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 JFK to PHX
JetBlue flew 531 of the 2,972 flights on JFK to PHX, about 18% of it. Its 73.0% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 82.0% to JetBlue at 73.0%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. American Airlines arrives on time 82.0% of the time; Delta Air Lines manages 73.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 917 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 1,524 | 82.0% | 93 min | 2.23% | B |
| Delta Air Lines | 917 | 73.9% | 61 min | 3.27% | C− |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 531 | 73.0% | 64 min | 2.82% | C |
Delta Air Lines cancels 3.3% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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 10 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am82 flights80.0%
- 8am–11am41 flights77.5%
- 11am–2pm46 flights79.1%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm336 flights69.6%
- 8pm–5am26 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 80.0% of the time, against 69.6% for the evening window. That is 10 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 336 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on JFK to PHX through the year
July is the worst month at 45.2% on time, 48 points below April, the best at 93.0%. 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. January was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 78.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 62.5%. 16 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 8,890 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%National Airspace System
- 22%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
41% 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 8,890 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 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 8,890 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 80.0% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.82%, against 1.81% 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.5% 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.
At 2,153 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The return leg runs 73.9% on time across 531 flights, within about 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. 531 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 JFK to PHX
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.82% 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. 515 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- JFK to PHX, every carrier
- JetBlue on PHX to JFK, the return leg
- American Airlines on JFK to PHX82.0%
- Delta Air Lines on JFK to PHX73.9%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.