JetBlue Airways on-time performance

Leaving on time and arriving on time are two different numbers

Pushed back on time

73.2% Left the gate less than 15 minutes behind the scheduled time.

Reached the gate on time

72.8% Arrived less than 15 minutes behind the scheduled time.

Cancelled

1.9% Share of scheduled flights that never flew.

Typical delay when late

79 min Averaged over flights 15 minutes or more behind.

An airline can leave late and still arrive on time if the schedule has padding in it, or leave on time and lose the margin in the air. A cancelled flight is neither on time nor late — it drops out of both rates entirely, which is why the cancellation figure has to be read alongside them rather than after them.

What the delays were put down to

Airlines file a reason with every arrival running 15 minutes late or more. The delay minutes on late JetBlue Airways arrivals break down with 40.8% put down to late-arriving aircraft and 34.4% to airline operations.

Late-arriving aircraft is the knock-on category: the plane came in late, so it went out late again. It is why a 7am problem in Newark is still a problem in Denver at dinnertime, and why it is usually the biggest slice on the bar.

Month by month, July 2023–June 2026

The same figure as the board row above, one month at a time. Three years is enough to show the summer trough and the autumn recovery repeating, which is the point of plotting it rather than quoting a single month.

Where JetBlue Airways flies from most

Top ten airports by departures. The on-time share here is departure-based, so it matches this airline’s row in each airport’s own table.

Against the rest of the industry

One airline in isolation is hard to read. The comparison table puts all 15 reporting carriers side by side on the same three measures.

Questions about JetBlue Airways

How often is JetBlue Airways on time?

72.8% of the 705,432 flights JetBlue Airways actually flew arrived less than 15 minutes behind schedule, July 2023 through June 2026. On departures the figure was 73.2%.

Why are JetBlue Airways’ departure and arrival numbers different?

Departure on time means pushback less than 15 minutes behind schedule; arrival on time means reaching the gate less than 15 minutes behind schedule. JetBlue Airways pushed back on time more often than it parked on time — 0.4 points more often, the gap that opens up in the air and on the taxiway.

What is JetBlue Airways’ cancellation rate?

1.9% of scheduled JetBlue Airways flights were cancelled, July 2023 through June 2026. Cancellations sit outside the on-time rate entirely: a cancelled flight is neither on time nor late, which is why the two numbers have to be read together.

What causes JetBlue Airways delays?

Of the delay minutes on late JetBlue Airways arrivals, 40.8% were filed as late-arriving aircraft and 34.4% as airline operations. Severe weather accounted for 2.5%, though that is not the whole weather story: conditions bad enough to slow the system as a whole are filed under air traffic and airport volume instead.

Where does JetBlue Airways fly from most?

BOS, with 120,048 departures over July 2023 through June 2026, and 74.1% of the ones that flew left on time. The full top ten is in the table on this page, each linked to that airport’s own record.