JetBlue Airways in October 2023

73.9%arrived on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In October 2023, JetBlue Airways (B6) reported 22,066 scheduled domestic flights. 73.9% arrived on time, 0.2% were cancelled and 0.3% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 84.0% on time and 0.4% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 10.1 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 50%, late-arriving aircraft 38% and national aviation system 11%.

On time 73.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 25.7%
Cancelled 0.2%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by JetBlue Airways in October 2023.

October 2023 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	B6, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Oct 2023
Arrived on time	73.9%	—	69.9%	84.0%
Departed on time	73.5%	—	71.1%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.2%	—	3.1%	0.4%
Average arrival delay	11.3 min	—	12.7 min	1.2 min
Scheduled flights a day	736	—	650	19,966
Scheduled flights	22,066	—	237,090	598,968

67 airports and 369 routes had B6 flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BOS Boston	3,816	73.9%	9.3 min	0.1%
JFK New York	3,333	67.2%	14.8 min	0.2%
FLL Fort Lauderdale	1,465	67.4%	14.7 min	0.3%
MCO Orlando	1,407	74.3%	10.9 min	0.0%
LGA New York	1,292	84.0%	-2.6 min	0.1%
LAX Los Angeles	1,070	78.9%	4.0 min	0.0%
DCA Washington	788	81.9%	2.5 min	0.0%
SJU San Juan	627	65.1%	28.3 min	0.2%
PBI West Palm Beach/Palm Beach	529	81.5%	3.0 min	0.4%
SFO San Francisco	471	82.2%	0.5 min	0.0%
EWR Newark	452	85.2%	1.8 min	0.0%
TPA Tampa	444	78.4%	10.9 min	0.5%
HPN White Plains	431	85.6%	-1.2 min	0.2%
ATL Atlanta	358	80.2%	6.8 min	0.3%
BUF Buffalo	339	79.9%	5.8 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of B6 flights that arrived on time, by scheduled departure hour (local time at each origin), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	49.9%	41.3%	213,583
Late-arriving aircraft	38.4%	40.5%	164,301
National Aviation System	10.8%	14.4%	46,117
Extreme weather	0.9%	3.7%	3,739
Security	0.1%	0.2%	392

428,132 delay minutes on 5,662 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

What share of JetBlue Airways flights were on time in October 2023?

73.9% of 22,066 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 84.0% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the carrier did not report that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for October 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for JetBlue Airways · methodology · corrections.