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B61333
Boston (BOS) to San Francisco (SFO) · scheduled 6:05 AM – 10:32 AM
How B61333 performs
601 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
B61333 arrived on time 84.3% of the time, against 74.6% for all BOS → SFO flights, so this departure is 9.7 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 12.5 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 601 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If B61333 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 B61333 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 96% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.
84.3% on time for this specific departure, against 71.8% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 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 B61333 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B61333 | 84.3% | 0.17% | -12 min | 4.0% | 601 |
| JetBlue on BOS → SFO | 71.8% | 0.89% | -5 min | 10.3% | 5,059 |
| All BOS → SFO flights | 74.6% | 1.03% | -6 min | 8.8% | 14,232 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why B61333 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
screening or terminal security incidents
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B61333 on BOS → SFO. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies B61333 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
B61333 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 7.5 hours on the ground at BOS, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
The aircraft flying B61333 came in 15 or more minutes late on 23% 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.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into BOS just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 451 of 600 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 |
|---|---|
| B61333 | 23% |
| Network, same turn | 29% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less on a turn this long than on a same-day one.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often B61333’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
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 July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves BOS late, does that still matter by the time it reaches SFO?
B61333 pushes back an average of 3.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at SFO an average of 5.5 minutes early. The 8.9 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. It spends 19.7 minutes on the taxiways at BOS, 1.1 minutes shorter than a typical BOS departure in the same hour.
On arrival at SFO, B61333 spends 9.8 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 1.9 minutes longer than a typical SFO arrival (7.9 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 SFO. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 36,667 departures from BOS scheduled in the clock hour B61333 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at SFO (436,060 flights), not just B61333’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves BOS
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. B61333 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 36,667 departures from BOS are scheduled in the 6 AM–7 AM hour over the period, against 440,893 across the whole day.
B61333 is scheduled out of BOS at 6:05 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from BOS in that hour arrive on time 88.8% of the time against 77.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 11.6 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from BOS 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 · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes B61333 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCO→SJU Orlando to San Juan | November 20, 2025 – December 1, 2025 | 12 | — |
| DCA→PBI Washington to West Palm Beach | October 27, 2024 – April 29, 2025 | 185 | 79.6% |
| BOS→IAH Boston to Houston | October 29, 2023 – January 3, 2024 | 66 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route B61333 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
27 min late
against a median of 12 min early
Percentiles over 601 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA1008 | United Airlines | 88.0% | 12 min early | 954 |
| B61333 this flight | JetBlue | 84.3% | 12 min early | 601 |
| UA1187 | United Airlines | 81.0% | 12 min early | 604 |
| DL977 | Delta Air Lines | 80.8% | 8 min early | 893 |
| B6133 | JetBlue | 80.2% | 10 min early | 660 |
| B61833 | JetBlue | 79.3% | 12 min early | 712 |
| AS357 | Alaska Airlines | 68.6% | 2 min early | 636 |
| DL475 | Delta Air Lines | 68.4% | 3 min early | 744 |
| B6733 | JetBlue | 68.2% | 3 min early | 794 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. B61333 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 601 records of B61333 operating BOS → SFO, 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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