Flight Reliability
B6 98 · JetBlue Airways
Denver → New York (DEN–JFK)
56
A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
- 70%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 27 min
- Average arrival delay
- 2.8%
- Cancelled
- 1 min early
- Median arrival delay
Based on 254 historical flights. Data through May 2026.
What the data says
Thursdays have been rough.
B6 98 arrived on time 84% of the time on Tuesdays and just 61% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.
Lagging the DEN–JFK route.
B6 98 arrived on time 70% of the time, versus 80% across the DEN–JFK route.
A bit behind the JetBlue Airways network.
B6 98 arrived on time 70% of the time, versus 73% across the JetBlue Airways network.
Trending in the right direction.
B6 98 arrived on time 85% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 69% in the three months before that.
The breakdown
- Mon66%(38 flights)
- Tue84%(31 flights)
- Wed80%(30 flights)
- Thu61%(38 flights)
- Fri63%(38 flights)
- Sat77%(34 flights)
- Sun62%(37 flights)
81%
May
Jun 57% → May 81% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 57% | 30 |
| July 2025 | 52% | 27 |
| August 2025 | 61% | 31 |
| October 2025 | 50% | 14 |
| November 2025 | 73% | 11 |
| December 2025 | 64% | 25 |
| February 2026 | 71% | 14 |
| March 2026 | 85% | 26 |
| April 2026 | 90% | 30 |
| May 2026 | 81% | 31 |
- Departures on time
- 59%
- Diverted
- 0.4%
- Flights flown
- 246
- Months covered
- 12
Same route, other flights
Keep nerding
Based on 254 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.