Flight profile · JetBlue
B6654
Washington (DCA) to Boston (BOS) · scheduled 10:30 AM – 12:08 PM
How B6654 performs
625 operations, October 2023 – April 2026.
B6654 arrived on time 85.8% of the time, against 76.0% for all DCA → BOS flights, so this departure is 9.8 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 12.7 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 625 operations, October 2023 – April 2026 · If B6654 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 B6654 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 96% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.
85.8% 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 · October 2023 – April 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 B6654 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6654 | 85.8% | 1.92% | -12 min | 5.9% | 625 |
| JetBlue on DCA → BOS | 73.1% | 2.80% | -8 min | 12.9% | 9,894 |
| All DCA → BOS flights | 76.0% | 2.96% | -8 min | 10.9% | 28,569 |
B6654 has cancelled 1.92% of its scheduled departures (12 of 625), against 2.96% for all DCA → BOS flights — this specific departure cancels 1.0 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 B6654 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2023 – April 2026
Why B6654 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 and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
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 B6654 on DCA → BOS. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2023 – April 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies B6654 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying B6654 came in 15 or more minutes late on 13% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into DCA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 593 of 613 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 |
|---|---|
| B6654 | 13% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
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 B6654’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
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 October 2023 – April 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DCA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches BOS?
B6654 pushes back an average of 8.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at BOS an average of 0.6 minutes late. The 8.0 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 17.3 minutes on the taxiways at DCA, 5.1 minutes shorter than a typical DCA departure in the same hour.
On arrival at BOS, B6654 spends 6.6 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 2.3 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 32,991 departures from DCA scheduled in the clock hour B6654 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 B6654’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2023 – April 2026
The hour it leaves DCA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. B6654 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 32,991 departures from DCA are scheduled in the 10 AM–11 AM hour over the period, against 435,076 across the whole day.
B6654 is scheduled out of DCA at 10:30 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from DCA in that hour arrive on time 84.5% of the time against 76.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.0 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 · October 2023 – April 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
26 min late
against a median of 12 min early
Percentiles over 625 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2023 – April 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6554 | JetBlue | 88.0% | 14 min early | 603 |
| B6654 this flight | JetBlue | 85.8% | 12 min early | 625 |
| B61954 | JetBlue | 84.2% | 11 min early | 625 |
| B61854 | JetBlue | 82.5% | 9 min early | 721 |
| B62454 | JetBlue | 76.3% | 10 min early | 649 |
| B62254 | JetBlue | 73.5% | 7 min early | 727 |
| AA2120 | American Airlines | 69.6% | 2 min early | 885 |
| B62354 | JetBlue | 67.3% | 6 min early | 752 |
| B61254 | JetBlue | 67.0% | 5 min early | 713 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. B6654 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 625 records of B6654 operating DCA → 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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