B6554

B6554 arrived on time 88.0% of the time, against 76.0% for all DCA → BOS flights — this specific departure is 12.0 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 14.9 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 603 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If B6554 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back — the refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route — better than 98% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

88.0% on time for this specific departure, against 73.1% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

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.

B6554 has cancelled 1.33% of its scheduled departures (8 of 603), against 2.96% for all DCA → BOS flights — this specific departure cancels 1.6 percentage points less 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 B6554 specifically, not about the route it flies.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B6554 on DCA → BOS. 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 July 2023 – July 2026

B6554 pushes back an average of 5.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at BOS an average of 2.2 minutes early. The 7.8 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. It spends 16.5 minutes on the taxiways at DCA, 2.0 minutes shorter than a typical DCA departure in the same hour.

On arrival at BOS, B6554 spends 6.9 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 2.0 minutes shorter than a typical BOS arrival (9.0 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 BOS. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 26,166 departures from DCA scheduled in the clock hour B6554 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 B6554’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

B6554 is scheduled out of DCA at 11:30 AM, in the 11 AM–12 PM bank. Departures from DCA in that hour arrive on time 82.2% of the time against 76.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.7 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from DCA 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.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route B6554 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. B6554 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.