B61471

B61471 arrived on time 82.6% of the time, against 72.5% for all LGA → FLL flights, so this departure is 10.1 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 14.1 points better.

B61471’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 6:00 AM earlier on, and around 7:00 AM more recently — a 60-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 637 operations, October 2024 – July 2026 · If B61471 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 98% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

82.6% on time for this specific departure, against 68.5% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – 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.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B61471 on LGA → FLL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – July 2026

B61471 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 7.9 hours on the ground at LGA, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, B61471 pushed back an average of 3 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 1 minute late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into LGA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 548 of 623 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.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – July 2026

B61471 pushes back an average of 4.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at FLL an average of 1.1 minutes late. The 3.7 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 22.2 minutes on the taxiways at LGA, 2.9 minutes longer than a typical LGA departure in the same hour.

On arrival at FLL, B61471 spends 6.1 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 1.3 minutes shorter than a typical FLL arrival (7.4 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 FLL. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 32,995 departures from LGA scheduled in the clock hour B61471 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at FLL (278,720 flights), not just B61471’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – July 2026

B61471 is scheduled out of LGA at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from LGA in that hour arrive on time 91.1% of the time against 78.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.8 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from LGA 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 · October 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. B61471 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.

• B61371 LGA→FLL JetBlue on the same route, departs 10:30 AM, on time 71.3%
• B6471 LGA→FLL JetBlue on the same route, departs 3:55 PM, on time 56.7%
• DL2308 LGA→FLL Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 7:59 PM, on time 65.3%
• B6608 LAS→FLL JetBlue flight into FLL, LAS to FLL, departs 11:59 PM, on time 70.4%