Carrier route record
B6JFK→TPA
JetBlue Airways · New York to Tampa
- Flights
- 1,119
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 48%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on JFK to TPA carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 5.8% 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 1,119 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on JFK to TPA runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 42 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,047 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.81%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.1%
Every carrier on JFK to TPA, 2,310 flights
These figures cover 1,119 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.0% 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 JFK to TPA
JetBlue flew 1,119 of the 2,310 flights on JFK to TPA, about 48% of it. Its 73.1% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 79.7% to Frontier at 69.8%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 1,094 | 79.7% | 69 min | 2.74% | B |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 1,119 | 73.1% | 79 min | 5.81% | C− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 97 | 69.8% | 103 min | 1.03% | C |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on JFK to TPA
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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 28 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am359 flights90.3%
- 8am–11am37 flights82.9%
- 11am–2pm136 flights63.7%
- 2pm–5pm274 flights62.5%
- 5pm–8pm109 flights66.0%
- 8pm–5am204 flights64.3%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.3% of the time, against 62.5% for the afternoon window. That is 28 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 359 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on JFK to TPA through the year
July is the worst month at 55.3% on time, 30 points below May, the best at 85.7%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 78.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 61.7%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on JFK to TPA runs when it is late
JetBlue on JFK to TPA often beats the schedule: 351 of 1,047 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 282 late arrivals split 65 under half an hour, 91 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 126 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early351 flights33.5%
- Within 15 min414 flights39.5%
- 15–29 min late65 flights6.2%
- 30–59 min late91 flights8.7%
- 1–2 hours late74 flights7.1%
- 2+ hours late52 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,047 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
50 of 278 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. In the other direction, 54 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at TPA.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on JFK to TPA
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 December 2025, 8 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 December 2025 | 8 hours 6 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 9 November 2025 | 6 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 July 2026 | 6 hours 19 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 July 2026 | 5 hours 26 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 26 December 2025 | 5 hours 21 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 22,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 22,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 22,209 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 90.3% on time here.
Cancellations run at 5.81%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen 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
12.0% 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 1,005 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 runs 74.4% on time across 1,116 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,119 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking JetBlue on JFK to TPA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.81% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over 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. 1,047 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- JFK to TPA, every carrier
- JetBlue on TPA to JFK, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on JFK to TPA79.7%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) 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.