Flight profile · JetBlue
B6226
Tampa (TPA) to New York (JFK) · scheduled 7:00 AM – 9:45 AM
How B6226 performs
700 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 700 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If B6226 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where B6226 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6226 | 77.3% | 4.86% | -7 min | 10.4% | 700 |
| 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 |
B6226 has cancelled 4.86% of its scheduled departures (34 of 700), against 2.65% for all TPA → JFK flights — this specific departure cancels 2.2 percentage points more often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about B6226 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why B6226 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B6226 on TPA → JFK. 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 B6226 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
B6226 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 6.2 hours on the ground at TPA, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, B6226 pushed back an average of 32 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 6 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, 590 of 666 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B6226 | 28% | 38% | 14% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
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 B6226’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often B6226 left 15 or more minutes late is higher 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 July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves TPA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches JFK?
B6226 pushes back an average of 13.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at JFK an average of 9.2 minutes late. The 4.1 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 16.1 minutes on the taxiways at TPA is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at JFK, B6226 spends 9.5 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 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 26,402 departures from TPA scheduled in the clock hour B6226 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 B6226’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves TPA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. B6226 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 26,402 departures from TPA are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 242,628 across the whole day.
B6226 is scheduled out of TPA at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from TPA in that hour arrive on time 89.6% of the time against 78.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 11.4 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
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 · July 2023 – July 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.
63 min late
against a median of 7 min early
B6226 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 7 min early, but the worst tenth are 70 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 700 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2475 | Delta Air Lines | 90.9% | 10 min early | 785 |
| B6226 this flight | JetBlue | 77.3% | 7 min early | 700 |
| B6126 | 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. B6226 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 700 records of B6226 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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