Carrier route record
B6TPA→JFK
JetBlue Airways · Tampa to New York
- Flights
- 1,116
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 48%
- 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 JFK carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 6.0% 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 1,116 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate JetBlue on TPA to JFK from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,045 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.6%
Every carrier on TPA to JFK, 2,307 flights
These figures cover 1,116 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.7% 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 JFK
JetBlue flew 1,116 of the 2,307 flights on TPA to JFK, about 48% of it. Its 74.4% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 85.3% to JetBlue at 74.4%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 97 | 85.3% | 48 min | 1.03% | A |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,094 | 82.3% | 81 min | 2.56% | B |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 1,116 | 74.4% | 75 min | 6.00% | C− |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on TPA to JFK
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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 42 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am237 flights93.5%
- 8am–11am215 flights90.7%
- 11am–2pm115 flights68.8%
- 2pm–5pm246 flights67.1%
- 5pm–8pm268 flights54.8%
- 8pm–5am35 flights51.5%
Scale runs 45% to 100%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 51.5% on time, against 93.5% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 268 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on TPA to JFK through the year
December is the weak month at 57.7% on time, against 96.7% in September. 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 124 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 80.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 65.3%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on TPA to JFK runs when it is late
JetBlue on TPA to JFK often beats the schedule: 270 of 1,045 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 268 late arrivals split 82 under half an hour, 64 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 122 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early270 flights25.8%
- Within 15 min507 flights48.5%
- 15–29 min late82 flights7.8%
- 30–59 min late64 flights6.1%
- 1–2 hours late75 flights7.2%
- 2+ hours late47 flights4.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,045 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
32 of 258 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. 42 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on TPA to JFK
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 August 2026, 6 hours 36 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2026 | 6 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 May 2026 | 6 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 June 2026 | 6 hours 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 18 June 2026 | 5 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 August 2026 | 4 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 20,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 24%Carrier
- 0%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 20,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 47 to one. The split is drawn from 20,106 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 93.5% on time here.
Cancellations run at 6.00%, against 1.89% 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
11.7% 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.
The 1,005 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 runs 73.1% on time across 1,119 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,116 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking JetBlue on TPA to JFK
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.00% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 1,045 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to JFK, every carrier
- JetBlue on JFK to TPA, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on TPA to JFK82.3%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) 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.