OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Boston to Buffalo

395 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on BOS–BUF arrive on time 76% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate76%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay60 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.3%of scheduled flights

based on 1,035 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • JetBlue Airways
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel1.3%
    Flights1,035

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline28%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)12%
  • Late aircraft58%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly BOS → BUF

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 87% on time.

  • Mornings87% on time · p90 20 min · 663 flights
  • Middays79% on time · p90 40 min · 613 flights
  • Afternoons74% on time · p90 60 min · 645 flights
  • Overnights71% on time · p90 60 min · 648 flights
  • Evenings62% on time · p90 95 min · 434 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 71% to 84% on time.

  • Tuesdays84% on time · p90 25 min · 432 flights
  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 50 min · 414 flights
  • Saturdays77% on time · p90 50 min · 367 flights
  • Thursdays74% on time · p90 60 min · 447 flights
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 75 min · 453 flights
  • Fridays72% on time · p90 65 min · 451 flights
  • Sundays71% on time · p90 60 min · 439 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.