Flight profile · JetBlue
B6126
Tampa (TPA) to New York (JFK) · scheduled 1:45 PM – 12:59 PM
How B6126 performs
968 operations, September 2023 – July 2026.
B6126 arrived on time 76.6% of the time, against 77.7% for all TPA → JFK flights, so this departure is 1.1 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 1.6 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 968 operations, September 2023 – July 2026 · If B6126 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How B6126 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
Which day you fly matters unusually much here, a wider weekday spread than 92% of 1,710 comparable flight numbers.
84.6% on time on a typical Tuesday, against 66.9% on a Sunday.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
Where B6126 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6126 | 76.6% | 2.69% | -4 min | 8.3% | 968 |
| JetBlue on TPA → JFK | 75.0% | 3.43% | -5 min | 11.4% | 3,351 |
| All TPA → JFK flights | 77.7% | 2.65% | -6 min | 9.6% | 7,143 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
Why B6126 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B6126 on TPA → JFK. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies B6126 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, B6126 pushed back an average of 43 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 3 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into TPA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 874 of 942 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| B6126 | 26% | 58% | 14% |
| Network, same turn | 18% | 85% | 10% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 45 to 59 minutes. How often B6126’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often B6126 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves TPA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches JFK?
B6126 pushes back an average of 16.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at JFK an average of 10.8 minutes late. The 6.0 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. Its 16.2 minutes on the taxiways at TPA is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at JFK, B6126 spends 9.1 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 2.4 minutes shorter than a typical JFK arrival (11.5 min).
Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached JFK. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 12,164 departures from TPA scheduled in the clock hour B6126 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at JFK (351,546 flights), not just B6126’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves TPA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. B6126 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 12,164 departures from TPA are scheduled in the 1 PM–2 PM hour over the period, against 242,628 across the whole day.
B6126 is scheduled out of TPA at 1:45 PM, in the 1 PM–2 PM bank. Departures from TPA in that hour arrive on time 76.5% of the time against 78.2% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour B6126 leaves in is an ordinary one for TPA and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from TPA to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does B6126 run worse on particular days?
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 17.7 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
48 min late
against a median of 4 min early
Percentiles over 968 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2475 | Delta Air Lines | 90.9% | 10 min early | 785 |
| B6226 | JetBlue | 77.3% | 7 min early | 700 |
| B6126 this flight | JetBlue | 76.6% | 4 min early | 968 |
| B62826 | JetBlue | 58.3% | 5 min late | 786 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. B6126 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 968 records of B6126 operating TPA → JFK, 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 excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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