Flight profile · JetBlue
B6492
Los Angeles (LAX) to Buffalo (BUF) · scheduled 10:09 PM – 7:29 AM
How B6492 performs
608 operations, September 2023 – July 2026.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 608 operations, September 2023 – July 2026 · If B6492 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back — the refund checker walks through eligibility.
Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6492 | 67.5% | 2.14% | 1 min | 11.3% | 608 |
| JetBlue on LAX → BUF | 67.5% | 2.14% | 1 min | 11.3% | 608 |
| All LAX → BUF flights | 67.6% | 2.13% | 1 min | 11.3% | 609 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
Why B6492 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding, fueling — within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B6492 on LAX → BUF. A single late flight can carry more than one cause, and only delays of fifteen minutes or more are attributed at all.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves LAX late, does that still matter by the time it reaches BUF?
B6492 pushes back an average of 25.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at BUF an average of 20.6 minutes late. The 5.3 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 17.7 minutes on the taxiways at LAX is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at BUF, B6492 spends 5.1 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 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 26,417 departures from LAX scheduled in the clock hour B6492 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 B6492’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves LAX
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. B6492 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 26,417 departures from LAX are scheduled in the 10 PM–11 PM hour over the period, against 595,153 across the whole day.
B6492 is scheduled out of LAX at 10:09 PM, in the 10 PM–11 PM bank. Departures from LAX in that hour arrive on time 80.2% of the time against 81.4% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour B6492 leaves in is an ordinary one for LAX and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from LAX 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 · September 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes B6492 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPA→BOS Tampa to Boston | September 4, 2025 – April 28, 2026 | 61 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route B6492 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.
73 min late
against a median of 1 min late
B6492 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 1 min late, but the worst tenth are 72 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 608 operations. Cancelled and diverted flights have no arrival time and are counted separately rather than as very late arrivals.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 608 records of B6492 operating LAX → 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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