Carrier route record
B6PHX→JFK
JetBlue Airways · Phoenix to New York
- 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 PHX to JFK sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 531 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 917 at 87.0% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate JetBlue on PHX to JFK from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
73.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 513 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.39%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
79.7%
Every carrier on PHX to JFK, 2,970 flights
These figures cover 531 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.1% 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 PHX to JFK
JetBlue flew 531 of the 2,970 flights on PHX to JFK, about 18% of it. Its 73.9% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 87.0% to JetBlue at 73.9%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 87.0% of the time; American Airlines manages 77.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,522 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 917 | 87.0% | 84 min | 3.27% | A− |
| American Airlines | 1,522 | 77.3% | 74 min | 2.10% | B |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 531 | 73.9% | 74 min | 3.39% | 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 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 531 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am12 flights—
- 11am–2pm86 flights70.2%
- 2pm–5pm54 flights70.8%
- 5pm–8pm16 flights—
- 8pm–5am363 flights75.4%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 70.2% on time against 75.4% for 8pm–5am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on PHX to JFK through the year
May is the best month on the calendar at 87.1% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. January was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 80.0% on time and Friday the weakest at 67.6%. 12 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 45% of the 9,909 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.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
45% 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 9,909 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 45 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 9,909 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,775 of the 9,909 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.39%, against 1.81% 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.1% 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 73.0% 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 PHX to JFK
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.39% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8pm–5am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 513 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PHX to JFK, every carrier
- JetBlue on JFK to PHX, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on PHX to JFK87.0%
- American Airlines on PHX to JFK77.3%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) 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.