Flight profile · JetBlue
B61855
Boston (BOS) to Washington (DCA) · scheduled 12:00 PM – 1:50 PM
How B61855 performs
692 operations, July 2023 – May 2026.
B61855 arrived on time 75.6% of the time, against 77.3% for all BOS → DCA flights, so this departure is 1.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 1.3 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 692 operations, July 2023 – May 2026 · If B61855 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where B61855 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B61855 | 75.6% | 2.17% | -7 min | 9.0% | 692 |
| JetBlue on BOS → DCA | 74.3% | 2.64% | -6 min | 10.2% | 9,895 |
| All BOS → DCA flights | 77.3% | 2.85% | -7 min | 9.2% | 28,569 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – May 2026
Why B61855 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s 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 B61855 on BOS → DCA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – May 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies B61855 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying B61855 came in 15 or more minutes late on 13% 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, 619 of 677 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 |
|---|---|
| B61855 | 13% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
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 B61855’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 – May 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves BOS late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DCA?
B61855 pushes back an average of 11.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at DCA an average of 8.4 minutes late. The 3.4 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 18.2 minutes on the taxiways at BOS is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at DCA, B61855 spends 6.2 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 1.4 minutes shorter than a typical DCA arrival (7.6 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 DCA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 23,189 departures from BOS scheduled in the clock hour B61855 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DCA (435,126 flights), not just B61855’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – May 2026
The hour it leaves BOS
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. B61855 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 23,189 departures from BOS are scheduled in the 12 PM–1 PM hour over the period, against 440,893 across the whole day.
B61855 is scheduled out of BOS at 12:00 PM, in the 12 PM–1 PM bank. Departures from BOS in that hour arrive on time 79.2% of the time against 77.2% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour B61855 leaves in is an ordinary one for BOS and explains nothing about its record either way.
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 – May 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
52 min late
against a median of 7 min early
Percentiles over 692 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – May 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2159 | American Airlines | 92.9% | 13 min early | 805 |
| YX5672 | Republic Airways | 87.2% | 12 min early | 671 |
| YX5692 | Republic Airways | 86.8% | 7 min early | 611 |
| YX5693 | Republic Airways | 86.0% | 10 min early | 737 |
| B61055 | JetBlue | 82.0% | 8 min early | 679 |
| B61555 | JetBlue | 81.0% | 6 min early | 695 |
| B61855 this flight | JetBlue | 75.6% | 7 min early | 692 |
| B62355 | JetBlue | 67.9% | 1 min early | 613 |
| B61955 | JetBlue | 67.5% | 3 min early | 880 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. B61855 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 692 records of B61855 operating BOS → DCA, 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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