Flight profile · JetBlue
B61874
Los Angeles (LAX) to Newark (EWR) · scheduled 10:55 AM – 6:52 PM
How B61874 performs
600 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on LAX → EWR, B61874 averaged about 4 operations a week (600 in 1,157 days, cancelled ones included).
B61874 arrived on time 69.9% of the time, against 79.4% for all LAX → EWR flights, so this departure is 9.5 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 8.2 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 600 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If B61874 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where B61874 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B61874 | 69.9% | 2.17% | -6 min | 12.4% | 600 |
| JetBlue on LAX → EWR | 78.1% | 1.64% | -10 min | 9.0% | 2,375 |
| All LAX → EWR flights | 79.4% | 1.94% | -10 min | 8.6% | 16,671 |
B61874 cancelled 13 of 600 operations (2.17%), close to the 1.94% for LAX → EWR.
12.4% of B61874’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 8.6% across LAX → EWR, 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 B61874 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B61874 on LAX → EWR. 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 B61874 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying B61874 came in 15 or more minutes late on 14% 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 LAX: 560 of 587 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 |
|---|---|
| B61874 | 14% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
70 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 B61874’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.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves LAX late, does that still matter by the time it reaches EWR?
B61874 pushes back an average of 20.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at EWR an average of 13.1 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. Its 19.1 minutes on the taxiways at LAX is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at EWR, B61874 spends 11.1 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 1.0 minutes longer than a typical EWR arrival (10.1 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 41,910 LAX departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 397,792 arrivals at EWR. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves LAX
B61874 has one departure time, 10:55 AM, so this is what that hour at LAX is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 41,910 departures from LAX are scheduled in the 10 AM–11 AM hour over the period, against 611,647 across the whole day.
B61874 is scheduled out of LAX at 10:55 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from LAX in that hour arrive on time 79.7% of the time against 81.3% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour B61874 leaves in is an ordinary one for LAX and explains nothing about its record either way.
Both airport figures cover every destination from LAX, 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 B61874 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. B61874 also served these 2 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHS→JFK Charleston to New York | March 29, 2026 – April 13, 2026 | 13 | — |
| SJU→FLL San Juan to Fort Lauderdale | December 19, 2024 | 1 | — |
The figures above describe only LAX → EWR, the route B61874 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
74 min late
against a median of 6 min early
B61874 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 6 min early, but the worst tenth are 80 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 600 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS284 | Alaska Airlines | 84.9% | 12 min early | 949 |
| B61574 | JetBlue | 80.2% | 8 min early | 611 |
| UA2096 | United Airlines | 80.0% | 9 min early | 842 |
| UA1700 | United Airlines | 79.2% | 16 min early | 912 |
| AS286 | Alaska Airlines | 72.1% | 4 min early | 650 |
| B61874 this flight | JetBlue | 69.9% | 6 min early | 600 |
| UA1855 | United Airlines | 64.4% | 3 min late | 637 |
Among all 7 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, B61874 has the 6th highest on-time rate, 15.0 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 600 records of B61874 operating LAX → EWR, 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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