Carrier route record
B6TPA→FLL
JetBlue Airways · Tampa to Fort Lauderdale
- Flights
- 355
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 25%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on TPA to FLL earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 355 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, JetBlue's TPA to FLL record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights
Avg delay
119 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.82%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
72.3%
Every carrier on TPA to FLL, 1,410 flights
These figures cover 355 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.2% 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 TPA to FLL
JetBlue flew 355 of the 1,410 flights on TPA to FLL, about 25% of it. Its 85.4% on time is 13 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from JetBlue at 85.4% to Spirit at 67.8%. 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)thin sample | 355 | 85.4% | 119 min | 2.82% | A |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 364 | 68.3% | 54 min | 2.20% | C |
| Spirit Airlines | 691 | 67.8% | 65 min | 3.91% | C− |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on TPA 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 32 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am140 flights95.6%
- 8am–11am130 flights88.4%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm62 flights63.2%
- 5pm–8pm23 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 95.6% of the time, against 63.2% for the afternoon window. That is 32 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 140 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%
- Jul–Sep 2026124 flights78.1%
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 85.4% on time across 355 flights.
JetBlue on TPA to FLL did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 91.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 78.1%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 118 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 93.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 81.6%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on TPA to FLL runs when it is late
JetBlue on TPA to FLL often beats the schedule: 112 of 342 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When JetBlue on TPA to FLL is late it tends to be very late: 28 of its 50 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 21 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early112 flights32.7%
- Within 15 min180 flights52.6%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.2%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late21 flights6.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 342 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 46 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on TPA to FLL
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 August 2026, 6 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 August 2026 | 6 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 June 2026 | 6 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 July 2026 | 5 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 August 2026 | 5 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 March 2026 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 61% of the 5,935 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
61% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,935 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 19 to one. The split is drawn from 5,935 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 95.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.82%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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
8.2% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 63.6% on time across 356 flights, 22 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 22 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 355 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: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.82% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; 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. 342 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to FLL, every carrier
- JetBlue on FLL to TPA, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on TPA to FLL68.3%
- Spirit Airlines on TPA to FLL67.8%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.