JetBlue (JBU) on-time performance, October 2026
4,812 scheduled JetBlue departures in US airspace in October 2026, 75.5% of them on time. Measured from FAA departure data, updated every morning.
On time, day by day
Share of JetBlue departures within 15 minutes of schedule, by day. Light bars show each day's departures for context. Worst day: Friday 2 October at 68.4%. Best: Tuesday 6 October at 81.5%.
Airports, ranked by on-time share
Airports with at least 30 JetBlue departures in the month.
| Airport | Departures | On time | 45+ min late | Avg delay (min) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BDL Windsor Locks | 42 | 92.9% | 2.4% | 2.5 |
| SJU San Juan | 177 | 88.1% | 4.5% | 3.0 |
| HPN White Plains | 91 | 86.8% | 8.8% | 2.6 |
| SYR Syracuse | 30 | 86.7% | 3.3% | 4.5 |
| EWR Newark | 79 | 84.8% | 5.1% | 3.4 |
| MCO Orlando | 330 | 80.9% | 10.0% | 10.5 |
| JFK New York | 801 | 80.5% | 8.0% | 8.0 |
| BUF Buffalo | 55 | 80.0% | 10.9% | 8.7 |
| LGA New York | 80 | 78.8% | 5.0% | 4.9 |
| LAX Los Angeles | 138 | 78.3% | 11.6% | 12.6 |
| CLE Cleveland | 31 | 77.4% | 12.9% | 12.5 |
| RDU Raleigh-Durham | 61 | 77.0% | 13.1% | 13.3 |
| ORD Chicago | 41 | 75.6% | 7.3% | 2.1 |
| LAS Las Vegas | 85 | 75.3% | 15.3% | 11.9 |
| BNA Nashville | 44 | 75.0% | 18.2% | 17.3 |
| DTW Detroit | 44 | 75.0% | 9.1% | 5.3 |
| BOS Boston | 745 | 74.2% | 12.3% | 14.5 |
| SFO San Francisco | 86 | 69.8% | 25.6% | 19.0 |
| FLL Fort Lauderdale | 654 | 69.4% | 13.5% | 15.6 |
| ATL Atlanta | 52 | 69.2% | 19.2% | 17.6 |
| DCA Washington | 120 | 68.3% | 18.3% | 22.8 |
| RSW Fort Myers | 43 | 67.4% | 11.6% | 13.2 |
| TPA Tampa | 64 | 67.2% | 14.1% | 16.7 |
| RIC Richmond | 30 | 66.7% | 20.0% | 39.5 |
| IAH Houston | 40 | 65.0% | 15.0% | 13.4 |
| PHL Philadelphia | 38 | 63.2% | 23.7% | 38.9 |
| PIT Pittsburgh (Pennsylva) | 34 | 61.8% | 23.5% | 19.6 |
| JAX Jacksonville | 42 | 59.5% | 21.4% | 25.8 |
Least punctual routes
Routes with at least 20 JetBlue departures, lowest on-time share first.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPA to BOS Tampa to Boston | 21 | 38.1% | 31.6 |
| PIT to BOS Pittsburgh (Pennsylva) to Boston | 20 | 40.0% | 33.8 |
| SFO to BOS San Francisco to Boston | 32 | 40.6% | 37.4 |
| DCA to BOS Washington to Boston | 42 | 45.2% | 40.5 |
| MCO to BOS Orlando to Boston | 41 | 46.3% | 45.3 |
| FLL to BOS Fort Lauderdale to Boston | 27 | 48.1% | 41.7 |
| JFK to BOS New York to Boston | 38 | 52.6% | 40.6 |
| BOS to MCO Boston to Orlando | 39 | 53.8% | 33.1 |
| PHL to BOS Philadelphia to Boston | 20 | 55.0% | 53.7 |
| LAX to BOS Los Angeles to Boston | 34 | 55.9% | 28.2 |
Busiest routes
The ten routes JetBlue flew most this month.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAX to JFK Los Angeles to New York | 64 | 85.9% | 8.3 |
| JFK to LAX New York to Los Angeles | 61 | 86.9% | 4.2 |
| BOS to DCA Boston to Washington | 49 | 77.6% | 13.0 |
| DCA to BOS Washington to Boston | 42 | 45.2% | 40.5 |
| MCO to BOS Orlando to Boston | 41 | 46.3% | 45.3 |
| FLL to LGA Fort Lauderdale to New York | 39 | 84.6% | 4.3 |
| SFO to JFK San Francisco to New York | 39 | 87.2% | 5.2 |
| BOS to MCO Boston to Orlando | 39 | 53.8% | 33.1 |
| JFK to BOS New York to Boston | 38 | 52.6% | 40.6 |
| BOS to JFK Boston to New York | 38 | 78.9% | 33.1 |
Other months for JetBlue
Airport pages for October 2026
How we measure
On time means the aircraft took off within 15 minutes of its scheduled departure, after subtracting the departure airport's normal taxi time (FAA SWIM reports wheels-off, not push-back, so the median taxi time of the last 30 days is taken off every flight first). Average delay is the mean of that taxi-adjusted delay over all departures; early departures count as negative minutes, so an operator that routinely leaves early can show a negative average. 45+ min late is the share of departures that left 45 minutes or more behind schedule, the point at which most connections are at risk.
Scope: scheduled airlines only, the same set as the monthly State of the Sky report (operators with published routes; private, fractional and charter operators are left out), so the two publications give the same numbers for the same month. Departures are counted by scheduled day (UTC). Each day's flights are rolled up overnight and published the next morning; the newest day keeps filling in for a day or two and is only shown once it is substantially complete. Figures can differ by a few tenths of a point from the State of the Sky report for the same month: that report is frozen on the 2nd of the following month, while these pages are rebuilt from the live rollup, which recomputes each airport's taxi baseline nightly and re-rolls the last week of the month as late departure times arrive (September 2026 at SFO: 16,398 departures in both, 69.2% on time here against 69.5% in the report).
Source: FAA System Wide Information Management (SWIM) flight plans and departure times, processed by PlaneTrack. Free to quote with credit to PlaneTrack (CC BY 4.0).
Data note: 3 October 2026 - FAA schedule rollup ran short after a database stall (about 17% of departures missing).