Flight profile · JetBlue
B61211
New York (JFK) to Las Vegas (LAS) · scheduled 8:00 PM – 10:44 PM
How B61211 performs
610 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on JFK → LAS, B61211 averaged about 4 operations a week (610 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
B61211 arrived on time 70.8% of the time, against 79.6% for all JFK → LAS flights, so this departure is 8.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 7.8 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 610 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If B61211 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where B61211 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B61211 | 70.8% | 2.30% | -9 min | 13.0% | 610 |
| JetBlue on JFK → LAS | 78.6% | 1.88% | -11 min | 8.6% | 4,461 |
| All JFK → LAS flights | 79.6% | 1.57% | -12 min | 7.5% | 11,232 |
B61211 cancelled 14 of 610 operations (2.30%), above the 1.57% for JFK → LAS.
13.0% of B61211’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 7.5% across JFK → LAS, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
Why B61211 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B61211 on JFK → LAS. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies B61211 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying B61211 came in 15 or more minutes late on 18% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into JFK: 369 of 596 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| B61211 | 18% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
89 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often B61211’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves JFK late, does that still matter by the time it reaches LAS?
B61211 pushes back an average of 15.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAS an average of 8.0 minutes late. The 7.8 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 30.7 minutes on the taxiways at JFK, 1.2 minutes shorter than a typical JFK departure in the same hour.
On arrival at LAS, B61211 spends 10.2 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is 2.6 minutes longer than a typical LAS arrival (7.7 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 18,673 JFK departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 583,484 arrivals at LAS. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves JFK
B61211 has one departure time, 8:00 PM, so this is what that hour at JFK is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 18,673 departures from JFK are scheduled in the 8 PM–9 PM hour over the period, against 360,775 across the whole day.
B61211 is scheduled out of JFK at 8:00 PM, in the 8 PM–9 PM bank. Departures from JFK in that hour arrive on time 66.9% of the time against 76.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.8 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from JFK, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes B61211 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. B61211 also served this other city pair in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLL→AUS Fort Lauderdale to Austin | March 8–17, 2024 | 6 | — |
The figures above describe only JFK → LAS, the route B61211 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
72 min late
against a median of 9 min early
B61211 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 9 min early, but the worst tenth are 81 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 610 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6411 | JetBlue | 89.8% | 15 min early | 1,013 |
| B6511 | JetBlue | 87.1% | 16 min early | 655 |
| DL806 | Delta Air Lines | 78.0% | 10 min early | 783 |
| DL781 | Delta Air Lines | 72.8% | 7 min early | 602 |
| B61211 this flight | JetBlue | 70.8% | 9 min early | 610 |
| B6711 | JetBlue | 67.1% | 3 min early | 909 |
Among all 6 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, B61211 has the 5th highest on-time rate, 19.0 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 610 records of B61211 operating JFK → LAS, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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