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B6471
New York (LGA) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) · scheduled 3:55 PM – 7:07 PM
How B6471 performs
911 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
B6471 arrived on time 56.7% of the time, against 72.5% for all LGA → FLL flights, so this departure is 15.8 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 11.8 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 911 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If B6471 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How B6471 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight's worst arrivals run unusually far past its typical one, a bigger gap than 94% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
A typical arrival is 8 min late, but the worst tenth run 103 minutes worse than that.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – 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.
Where B6471 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6471 | 56.7% | 4.06% | 8 min | 21.4% | 911 |
| JetBlue on LGA → FLL | 68.5% | 2.61% | -3 min | 14.3% | 5,099 |
| All LGA → FLL flights | 72.5% | 2.86% | -6 min | 11.6% | 14,072 |
B6471 has cancelled 4.06% of its scheduled departures (37 of 911), against 2.86% for all LGA → FLL flights — this specific departure cancels 1.2 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 B6471 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why B6471 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
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B6471 on LGA → FLL. 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 B6471 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, B6471 pushed back an average of 64 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 9 minutes 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, 814 of 874 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B6471 | 32% | 79% | 20% |
| Network, same turn | 18% | 85% | 10% |
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 B6471’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often B6471 left 15 or more minutes late is lower 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 LGA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches FLL?
B6471 pushes back an average of 34.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at FLL an average of 30.3 minutes late. The 3.8 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 29.0 minutes on the taxiways at LGA is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at FLL, B6471 spends 6.3 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 1.1 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 32,203 departures from LGA scheduled in the clock hour B6471 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 B6471’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves LGA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. B6471 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 32,203 departures from LGA are scheduled in the 3 PM–4 PM hour over the period, against 456,467 across the whole day.
B6471 is scheduled out of LGA at 3:55 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from LGA in that hour arrive on time 71.1% of the time against 78.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.2 points worse 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 · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does B6471 run worse on particular days?
Saturday is historically the most reliable day and Monday the least, a gap of 14.3 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes B6471 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| PVD→PBI Providence/Warwick to West Palm Beach | December 3–18, 2024 | 16 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route B6471 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
111 min late
against a median of 8 min late
B6471 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 8 min late, but the worst tenth are 103 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 911 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NK171 | Spirit Airlines | 90.3% | 17 min early | 613 |
| B61471 | JetBlue | 82.6% | 7 min early | 637 |
| B6271 | JetBlue | 75.0% | 7 min early | 658 |
| B61371 | JetBlue | 71.3% | 4 min early | 1,062 |
| DL2308 | Delta Air Lines | 65.3% | 2 min early | 706 |
| B6371 | JetBlue | 62.6% | 1 min late | 689 |
| B6571 | JetBlue | 57.5% | 4 min late | 662 |
| B6471 this flight | JetBlue | 56.7% | 8 min late | 911 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. B6471 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 911 records of B6471 operating LGA → FLL, 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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