Carrier route record
B6RIC→BOS
JetBlue Airways · Richmond to Boston
- Flights
- 758
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 45%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on RIC to BOS carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.2% 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 758 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate JetBlue on RIC to BOS from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 726 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.22%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.3%
Every carrier on RIC to BOS, 1,693 flights
These figures cover 758 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.4% 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 RIC to BOS
JetBlue flew 758 of the 1,693 flights on RIC to BOS, about 45% of it. Its 74.0% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 79.9% to JetBlue at 74.0%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 935 | 79.9% | 71 min | 3.21% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 758 | 74.0% | 90 min | 4.22% | C− |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on RIC to BOS
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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 40 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am157 flights89.6%
- 8am–11am177 flights88.2%
- 11am–2pm131 flights72.1%
- 2pm–5pm83 flights64.9%
- 5pm–8pm164 flights50.0%
- 8pm–5am46 flights68.2%
Scale runs 40% to 95%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 50.0% on time, against 89.6% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 177 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on RIC to BOS through the year
December is the weak month at 58.7% on time, against 89.8% in April. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. October was the busiest month here, with 90 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 83.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 65.0%, a spread of 18 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on RIC to BOS runs when it is late
JetBlue on RIC to BOS often beats the schedule: 184 of 726 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 189 late arrivals split 46 under half an hour, 60 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 83 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early184 flights25.3%
- Within 15 min353 flights48.6%
- 15–29 min late46 flights6.3%
- 30–59 min late60 flights8.3%
- 1–2 hours late52 flights7.2%
- 2+ hours late31 flights4.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 726 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 179 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 13 made it up before arrival. 23 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on RIC to BOS
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 July 2026, 23 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across July, December, November and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2026 | 23 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 December 2025 | 18 hours 55 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 November 2025 | 17 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 February 2026 | 6 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 December 2025 | 5 hours 48 minutes | Extreme weather |
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 17,000 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 16,965 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 89.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.22%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
11.4% 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.
At 473 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 runs 73.4% on time across 757 flights, within half 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. 758 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 RIC to BOS
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.22% 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. 726 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.