Carrier route record
B6RIC→FLL
JetBlue Airways · Richmond to Fort Lauderdale
- Flights
- 600
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 74%
- 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 FLL lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 600 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 FLL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 580 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.3%
Every carrier on RIC to FLL, 808 flights
These figures cover 600 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% 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 FLL
JetBlue flew 600 of the 808 flights on RIC to FLL, most of the route. Its 78.1% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from JetBlue at 78.1% to Spirit at 62.9%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 600 | 78.1% | 79 min | 3.00% | B |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 208 | 62.9% | 80 min | 6.25% | D− |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on RIC to FLL
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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 33 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am298 flights85.8%
- 8am–11am56 flights92.6%
- 11am–2pm79 flights74.4%
- 2pm–5pm41 flights63.2%
- 5pm–8pm116 flights59.5%
- 8pm–5am10 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 59.5% on time, against 92.6% 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 298 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on RIC to FLL through the year
January is the weak month at 56.2% on time, against 91.7% in October. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.4%, a spread of 20 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on RIC to FLL runs when it is late
JetBlue on RIC to FLL often beats the schedule: 167 of 580 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 127 late arrivals split 42 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 49 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early167 flights28.8%
- Within 15 min286 flights49.3%
- 15–29 min late42 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late36 flights6.2%
- 1–2 hours late28 flights4.8%
- 2+ hours late21 flights3.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 580 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 121 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 25 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on RIC to FLL
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 December 2025, 11 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 December 2025 | 11 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 November 2025 | 6 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 December 2025 | 6 hours 8 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 27 January 2026 | 5 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 December 2025 | 4 hours 46 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 9,979 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,979 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 9,979 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 92.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.00%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
8.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 806 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 65.1% on time across 601 flights, 13 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 13 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 600 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 FLL
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.00% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over 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. 580 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.