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B6540
Cleveland (CLE) to Boston (BOS) · scheduled 6:00 AM – 7:42 AM
How B6540 performs
726 operations, July 2023 – June 2026.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 726 operations, July 2023 – June 2026 · If B6540 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where B6540 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6540 | 80.1% | 1.65% | -11 min | 6.6% | 726 |
| JetBlue on CLE → BOS | 76.9% | 2.04% | -8 min | 9.7% | 2,451 |
| All CLE → BOS flights | 81.0% | 1.85% | -11 min | 8.3% | 5,255 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – June 2026
Why B6540 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
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B6540 on CLE → BOS. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – June 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies B6540 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
B6540 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 7.8 hours on the ground at CLE, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, B6540 pushed back an average of 22 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 5 minutes early.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into CLE just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 654 of 714 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B6540 | 35% | 32% | 7% |
| 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 B6540’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often B6540 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 – June 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves CLE late, does that still matter by the time it reaches BOS?
B6540 pushes back an average of 6.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at BOS an average of 3.9 minutes late. The 2.5 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 15.8 minutes on the taxiways at CLE is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at BOS, B6540 spends 8.2 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 BOS 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 BOS. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 16,316 departures from CLE scheduled in the clock hour B6540 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at BOS (440,886 flights), not just B6540’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – June 2026
The hour it leaves CLE
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. B6540 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 16,316 departures from CLE are scheduled in the 6 AM–7 AM hour over the period, against 126,883 across the whole day.
B6540 is scheduled out of CLE at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from CLE in that hour arrive on time 90.6% of the time against 80.9% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.7 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from CLE 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 – June 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes B6540 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHL→BOS Philadelphia to Boston | January 7, 2025 – February 12, 2025 | 37 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route B6540 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.
37 min late
against a median of 11 min early
Percentiles over 726 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – June 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YX5684 | Republic Airways | 91.5% | 17 min early | 764 |
| B62040 | JetBlue | 82.1% | 9 min early | 628 |
| B6540 this flight | JetBlue | 80.1% | 11 min early | 726 |
| B6640 | JetBlue | 67.0% | 3 min early | 805 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. B6540 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 726 records of B6540 operating CLE → BOS, 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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