Flight profile · JetBlue
B62466
Fort Lauderdale (FLL) to Buffalo (BUF) · scheduled 7:27 PM – 10:30 PM
How B62466 performs
985 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
B62466 arrived on time 73.0% of the time, against 70.4% for all FLL → BUF flights, so this departure is 2.6 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 2.1 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 985 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If B62466 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where B62466 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B62466 | 73.0% | 1.42% | -4 min | 13.8% | 985 |
| JetBlue on FLL → BUF | 70.9% | 1.70% | -2 min | 13.3% | 1,409 |
| All FLL → BUF flights | 70.4% | 1.76% | -2 min | 12.6% | 1,646 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why B62466 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow 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 B62466 on FLL → BUF. 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 B62466 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, B62466 pushed back an average of 33 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 8 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into FLL just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 762 of 971 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B62466 | 26% | 54% | 18% |
| Network, same turn | 23% | 40% | 9% |
The schedule leaves a long gap on the ground, which gives a late aircraft room to catch up before this flight pushes back.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 90 minutes to 3 hours. How often B62466’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often B62466 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 FLL late, does that still matter by the time it reaches BUF?
B62466 pushes back an average of 15.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at BUF an average of 12.1 minutes late. The 3.3 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 18.7 minutes on the taxiways at FLL is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at BUF, B62466 spends 5.0 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 about what any arrival at BUF spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
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 BUF. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 19,259 departures from FLL scheduled in the clock hour B62466 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at BUF (65,593 flights), not just B62466’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves FLL
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. B62466 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 19,259 departures from FLL are scheduled in the 7 PM–8 PM hour over the period, against 278,691 across the whole day.
B62466 is scheduled out of FLL at 7:27 PM, in the 7 PM–8 PM bank. Departures from FLL in that hour arrive on time 60.3% of the time against 72.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.2 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from FLL 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.
By day of week
Does B62466 run worse on particular days?
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 15.0 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
73 min late
against a median of 4 min early
B62466 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 4 min early, but the worst tenth are 77 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 985 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 985 records of B62466 operating FLL → BUF, 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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