Carrier route record
B6LGA→TPA
JetBlue Airways · New York to Tampa
- Flights
- 353
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on LGA to TPA 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 353 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 1,724 at 73.2% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on LGA to TPA runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 114 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 340 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.40%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
70.5%
Every carrier on LGA to TPA, 2,763 flights
These figures cover 353 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.2% 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 LGA to TPA
JetBlue flew 353 of the 2,763 flights on LGA to TPA, about 13% of it. Its 65.9% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 70.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 100.0% to American at 65.9%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 73.2% of the time; American Airlines manages 65.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 683 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 3 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,724 | 73.2% | 77 min | 3.54% | C− |
| JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample | 353 | 65.9% | 66 min | 3.40% | C− |
| American Airlines | 683 | 65.9% | 76 min | 2.49% | C |
Delta Air Lines cancels 3.5% 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.
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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 23 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am191 flights76.0%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm111 flights58.9%
- 5pm–8pm18 flights—
- 8pm–5am32 flights53.1%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 53.1% on time, against 76.0% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 191 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on LGA to TPA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202548 flights85.4%
- Oct–Dec 2025168 flights57.4%
- Jan–Mar 2026137 flights69.2%
Scale runs 50% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 65.9% on time across 353 flights.
JetBlue on LGA to TPA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 85.4% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 57.4%, a swing of 28 points on roughly 118 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 56.0%, a spread of 26 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on LGA to TPA runs when it is late
JetBlue on LGA to TPA often beats the schedule: 85 of 340 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 116 late arrivals split 35 under half an hour, 43 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 38 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early85 flights25.0%
- Within 15 min139 flights40.9%
- 15–29 min late35 flights10.3%
- 30–59 min late43 flights12.6%
- 1–2 hours late19 flights5.6%
- 2+ hours late19 flights5.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 340 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 90 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 10 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 36 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 LGA to TPA
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 February 2026, 4 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 February 2026 | 4 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 November 2025 | 4 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 January 2026 | 4 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 January 2026 | 3 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 January 2026 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 7,651 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 22%Carrier
- 0%Extreme weather
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,651 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 52 to one. The split is drawn from 7,651 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 76.0% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.40%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
11.2% 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 1,010 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 66.8% on time across 354 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. 353 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 LGA to TPA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.40% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 340 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to TPA, every carrier
- JetBlue on TPA to LGA, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on LGA to TPA73.2%
- American Airlines on LGA to TPA65.9%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- LaGuardia (LGA) 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.