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JetBlue Airways

According to PlainFlights' airline traffic ranking (BTS On-Time Performance total flights), JetBlue Airways ranks #8 of 18 tracked US carriers by total flights (most flights = #1).

Data updated 2026-06-13

73.8%
On-time
-5.2 pts
vs US avg
81 min
Delay when late
2.55%
Cancelled
#8 of 18
Corpus placement

According to PlainFlights' airline traffic ranking (BTS On-Time Performance total flights), JetBlue Airways ranks #8 of 18 tracked US carriers by total flights (most flights = #1). How we place airlines.

BTS on-time dispatch plate

Carrier B6 · JetBlue Airways

ONTIME-LAG · BELOW-AVG · BOOK-MID · CARRIER-LED · CX-HOT · SPREAD-WIDE

  • ONTIME-LAG 73.8% on-time
  • BELOW-AVG -5.2 pts vs US
  • BOOK-MID 1.4M flights
  • CARRIER-LED Carrier-led delays
  • CX-HOT 2.55% cancel
  • SPREAD-WIDE 21-pt season gap

Nearest on-time peer: Frontier Airlines ( -0.1 pts)

Instrument codes from this carrier’s BTS on-time band, national gap, flight-book size, leading delay cause, cancel posture, and seasonal spread, not a booking recommendation.

On-time neighbourhood

Poles + nearest peers, not a full 18-carrier reprint

Value

What this shows How B6 sits among BTS on-time poles and nearest peers.

Source BTS On-Time Performance As of 2020–2025

JetBlue Airways - monthly on-time rate

Last 24 months reported; ranged 65%–86%

60%65%70%75%80%85%90% Jan '24Apr '24Jul '24Oct '24Jan '25Apr '25Jul '25Oct '25Dec '25 64.9%

JetBlue Airways - BTS Delay Tier Breakdown

How JetBlue Airways flights distribute across federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics arrival-delay tiers. The on-time band uses the BTS 15-minute threshold; longer-delay tiers reflect arrival-time bins reported in the underlying database.

JetBlue Airways (B6) - flight delay tier distribution Stacked horizontal bar showing what percent of JetBlue Airways (B6) flights fell into each Bureau of Transportation Statistics delay tier: on-time (under 15 minutes late), delayed (15-60 minutes), heavily delayed (60-120 minutes), severe (120+ minutes), and cancelled. JetBlue Airways (B6) Flight delay tiers · BTS On-Time Performance methodology 73.8% 23.7% 0% 100% On time <15m · 73.8% Delayed 15–60m · 23.7% Cancelled cnx · 2.5%
Tiers follow Bureau of Transportation Statistics On-Time Performance definitions, a flight is on-time if it arrives less than 15 minutes after schedule.

Delay Cause Breakdown

Top delay cause: Carrier. Total delay minutes: 27,724,519.

Late Aircraft 37.7% (10,456,760 min)
Carrier 39.9% (11,063,830 min)
NAS (National Aviation System) 19.4% (5,371,019 min)
Weather 2.8% (767,305 min)
Security 0.2% (65,605 min)

Seasonal on-time calendar

Multi-year average by calendar month for B6 (BTS 2020–2025), not a single recent year.

  • Best month

    October

    78.5% on-time · ~18,568 flights/mo

  • Mid pack

    April

    75.3% on-time · ~18,447 flights/mo

  • Worst month

    July

    66.8% on-time · ~19,536 flights/mo

Spread 11.7 pts between October and July. The monthly chart above shows the recent path; this desk ranks the long-run calendar.

B6 delay-share reading

Across 1,366,470 BTS-reported flights (2020–2025), JetBlue Airways posts 73.8% on-time, 5.2 points below the 79% national flight-weighted average, with 357,799 delayed arrivals and 34,823 cancellations (2.55% of the book). When a flight runs late, the average delay is 81.0 minutes.

Delay minutes concentrate in Carrier (37.7% late-aircraft, 39.9% carrier, 19.4% NAS, 2.8% weather, 0.2% security across 27,724,519 total delay minutes). That mix is this carrier’s fingerprint, not a fleet-wide template sentence.

On the multi-year calendar, B6 is strongest in October (78.5% on-time on about 18,568 flights per month) and weakest in July (66.8%). The 11.7-point seasonal swing is why the dispatch plate stamps a season code for this airline alone.

Nearest on-time peer

Closest BTS on-time neighbour for B6, not a universal board reprint.

Frontier Airlines

-0.1 pts on-time vs B6

Frontier Airlines on-time profile

Field definitions: on-time performance explained.

Data Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025). Statistics reflect cumulative performance across all available reporting periods. On-time rates exclude cancelled and diverted flights.
Data sourced from U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) On-Time Performance data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFlights

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Every figure on PlainFlights is rendered directly from BTS On-Time Performance data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page aggregates this airline's on-time performance and delay-cause breakdown, live from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.