Carrier route record
B6TPA→LGA
JetBlue Airways · Tampa to New York
- Flights
- 354
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on TPA to LGA draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 354 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 683 at 82.4% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on TPA to LGA runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 105 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 340 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.67%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.3%
Every carrier on TPA to LGA, 2,764 flights
These figures cover 354 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.5% 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 LGA
JetBlue flew 354 of the 2,764 flights on TPA to LGA, about 13% of it. Its 66.8% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 82.4% to Southwest at 33.3%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. American Airlines arrives on time 82.4% of the time; Delta Air Lines manages 72.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,724 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 683 | 82.4% | 136 min | 2.49% | B |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,724 | 72.8% | 85 min | 3.54% | C− |
| JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample | 354 | 66.8% | 79 min | 3.67% | C− |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 3 | 33.3% | 49 min | 0.00% | F+ |
Delta Air Lines cancels 3.5% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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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 24 points, against 10 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am95 flights68.1%
- 11am–2pm96 flights81.5%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm162 flights57.1%
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 57.1% on time, against 81.5% for the 11am–2pm 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 162 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on TPA to LGA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202548 flights85.4%
- Oct–Dec 2025168 flights62.7%
- Jan–Mar 2026138 flights64.9%
Scale runs 55% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 66.8% on time across 354 flights.
JetBlue on TPA to LGA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 85.4% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 62.7%, a swing of 23 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 80.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 52.1%, a spread of 28 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on TPA to LGA runs when it is late
The 113 late arrivals split 35 under half an hour, 32 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 46 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early46 flights13.5%
- Within 15 min181 flights53.2%
- 15–29 min late35 flights10.3%
- 30–59 min late32 flights9.4%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late26 flights7.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 340 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 107 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 21 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LGA.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on TPA to LGA
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 December 2025, 8 hours 23 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 14 December 2025 | 8 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 October 2025 | 4 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 November 2025 | 4 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 January 2026 | 3 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 December 2025 | 3 hours 56 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 8,954 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%National Airspace System
- 19%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,954 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 45 to one. The split is drawn from 8,954 reported delay minutes.
36% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 3,181 minutes out of 8,954, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 3.67%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
13.5% 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 1,010 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 65.9% on time across 353 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 354 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 LGA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.67% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 340 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to LGA, every carrier
- JetBlue on LGA to TPA, the return leg
- American Airlines on TPA to LGA82.4%
- Delta Air Lines on TPA to LGA72.8%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) 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.