Flight profile · JetBlue
B6697
Boston (BOS) to Atlanta (ATL) · scheduled 3:45 PM – 6:30 PM
How B6697 performs
741 operations, July 2023 – May 2026.
B6697 arrived on time 62.8% of the time, against 78.5% for all BOS → ATL flights, so this departure is 15.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 7.4 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 741 operations, July 2023 – May 2026 · If B6697 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 B6697 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far behind the BOS → ATL route as a whole, worse than 93% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
62.8% on time for this specific departure, against 78.5% for every BOS → ATL flight.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – May 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 B6697 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6697 | 62.8% | 2.43% | 3 min | 15.1% | 741 |
| JetBlue on BOS → ATL | 70.2% | 2.14% | -3 min | 12.1% | 2,662 |
| All BOS → ATL flights | 78.5% | 1.38% | -8 min | 8.0% | 15,469 |
B6697 has cancelled 2.43% of its scheduled departures (18 of 741), against 1.38% for all BOS → ATL flights — this specific departure cancels 1.1 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 B6697 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – May 2026
Why B6697 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
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B6697 on BOS → ATL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – May 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies B6697 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, B6697 pushed back an average of 58 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 7 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into BOS just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 572 of 725 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B6697 | 28% | 75% | 17% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 68% | 9% |
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 60 to 89 minutes. How often B6697’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often B6697 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 – May 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves BOS late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ATL?
B6697 pushes back an average of 26.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at ATL an average of 21.7 minutes late. The 5.2 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 20.5 minutes on the taxiways at BOS is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at ATL, B6697 spends 12.5 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 3.0 minutes longer than a typical ATL arrival (9.6 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 ATL. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 28,004 departures from BOS scheduled in the clock hour B6697 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at ATL (1,012,161 flights), not just B6697’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – May 2026
The hour it leaves BOS
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. B6697 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 28,004 departures from BOS are scheduled in the 3 PM–4 PM hour over the period, against 440,893 across the whole day.
B6697 is scheduled out of BOS at 3:45 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from BOS in that hour arrive on time 71.4% of the time against 77.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.9 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from BOS 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 – May 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.
92 min late
against a median of 3 min late
B6697 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 3 min late, but the worst tenth are 89 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 741 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – May 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL695 | Delta Air Lines | 90.3% | 13 min early | 1,126 |
| DL456 | Delta Air Lines | 87.7% | 10 min early | 1,105 |
| DL923 | Delta Air Lines | 85.6% | 11 min early | 1,056 |
| DL376 | Delta Air Lines | 85.0% | 9 min early | 807 |
| DL385 | Delta Air Lines | 82.7% | 9 min early | 1,075 |
| B61097 | JetBlue | 81.6% | 10 min early | 902 |
| DL322 | Delta Air Lines | 81.4% | 8 min early | 1,115 |
| DL973 | Delta Air Lines | 81.4% | 7 min early | 932 |
| B6697 this flight | JetBlue | 62.8% | 3 min late | 741 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. B6697 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 741 records of B6697 operating BOS → ATL, 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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