Carrier route record

B6PIT→JFK

JetBlue Airways · Pittsburgh to New York

Flights: 454
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 26%
Carriers: 2

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.

JetBlue on PIT to JFK earns a B−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 454 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, JetBlue's PIT to JFK record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 71 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 426 completed flights

Avg delay

89 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.17%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

87.0%

Every carrier on PIT to JFK, 1,764 flights

These figures cover 454 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Carrier by carrier

JetBlue against every carrier on PIT to JFK

JetBlue flew 454 of the 1,764 flights on PIT to JFK, about 26% of it. Its 84.7% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 87.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 87.8% to JetBlue at 84.7%.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on PIT to JFK
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways	1,310	87.8%	74 min	2.52%	A
JetBlue Airways (this page)	454	84.7%	89 min	6.17%	B−

Flight by flight

JetBlue flight numbers on PIT to JFK

B6 119806:0088.9% · 365 flights

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 24 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am365 flights88.9%
8am–11am4 flights—
11am–2pm3 flights—
2pm–5pm3 flights—
5pm–8pm79 flights64.9%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 64.9% on time, against 88.9% for the 5am–8am 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

JetBlue on PIT to JFK through the year

Jul–Sep 2025120 flights83.8%
Oct–Dec 2025153 flights80.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.0%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. 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 84.7% on time across 454 flights.

Quarter by quarter JetBlue on PIT to JFK held fairly steady: 83.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90.0% in Apr–Jun 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 90.6% on time and Thursday the weakest at 81.4%. 9 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. Carrier accounts for 51% of the 5,767 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.

Carrier
51%
National Airspace System
31%
Late-arriving aircraft
18%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, 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 2,956 of the 5,767 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,767 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 6.17%, against 1.81% 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

6.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 340 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 68.1% on time across 454 flights, 17 points below 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 17 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 454 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 PIT to JFK

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.17% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 426 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

Key figures