Carrier route record

B6TPA→FLL

JetBlue Airways · Tampa to Fort Lauderdale

Flights: 231
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 16%
Carriers: 3

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

JetBlue on TPA to FLL earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 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 231 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, JetBlue's TPA to FLL record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 114 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 228 completed flights

Avg delay

90 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.87%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

73.1%

Every carrier on TPA to FLL, 1,418 flights

These figures cover 231 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 TPA to FLL

JetBlue flew 231 of the 1,418 flights on TPA to FLL, about 16% of it. Its 89.0% on time is 16 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from JetBlue at 89.0% to Southwest at 68.5%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on TPA to FLL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample	231	89.0%	90 min	0.87%	A+
Spirit Airlines	823	70.6%	67 min	3.28%	C−
Southwest Airlinesthin sample	364	68.5%	59 min	2.20%	C

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 231 flights.

5am–8am78 flights96.1%
8am–11am130 flights88.4%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm23 flights—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 96.1% on time for the 5am–8am window against 88.4% for 8am–11am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 130 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

JetBlue on TPA to FLL through the year

Oct–Dec 202527 flights—
Jan–Mar 2026100 flights85.7%
Apr–Jun 2026104 flights91.3%

Scale runs 75% 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 89.0% on time across 231 flights.

Split by quarter, JetBlue on TPA to FLL logged 27 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 100 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 104 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 89.0% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 100.0% on time and Friday the weakest at 79.4%. 21 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 55% of the 2,255 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
55%
Late-arriving aircraft
22%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
8%

The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, 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 1,245 of the 2,255 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,255 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.87%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 197 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 66.1% on time across 232 flights, 23 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 23 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 231 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 TPA to FLL

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 231 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 89.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 228 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.

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