Flight number record
B6 1098
JetBlue Airways · Orlando to New York
- Route
- MCO → LGA
- Departs
- 12:25
- Flights
- 356
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1098, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 1098 earns a D−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 57.4% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 20 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 356 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so B6 1098 runs 20 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 199 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
57.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 340 completed flights
Avg delay
87 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.65%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
23.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 356 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 23.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When B6 1098 flies
B6 1098 flies MCO to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:25, used on 57 of 356 flights, with 15:50 (53 flights) and 17:15 (49 flights) next.
- Departs 12:2557 flights16.0%
- Departs 15:5053 flights14.9%
- Departs 17:1549 flights13.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 12:25 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and B6 1098 runs 21 points worse at 57.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
B6 1098 next to MCO to LGA
Every carrier on MCO to LGA combined arrived on time 67.5% of the time across 5,149 flights, so B6 1098 is 10 points behind it. JetBlue flew 1,204 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 61.2% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight trails by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 1098thin sample | 356 | 57.4% | 87 min | 3.65% | D− |
| All JetBlue Airways on MCO–LGA | 1,204 | 61.2% | 82 min | 4.07% | D− |
| All carriers on MCO–LGA | 5,149 | 67.5% | 82 min | 4.33% | C− |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 1098 quarter by quarter
B6 1098 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 86.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 30.8%, a swing of 56 points on roughly 71 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights55.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights60.9%
- Apr–Jun 202683 flights62.0%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights30.8%
Scale runs 20% to 90%.
By weekday, B6 1098 did best on Friday at 66.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 43.8%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 1098 runs when it is late
When B6 1098 is late it tends to be very late: 81 of its 145 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 35 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early54 flights15.9%
- Within 15 min141 flights41.5%
- 15–29 min late32 flights9.4%
- 30–59 min late32 flights9.4%
- 1–2 hours late46 flights13.5%
- 2+ hours late35 flights10.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 340 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 131 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 14 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 28 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LGA.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 1098
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 October 2025, 6 hours 43 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 October 2025 | 6 hours 43 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 12 June 2026 | 6 hours 16 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 August 2026 | 6 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 February 2026 | 5 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 5 hours 6 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why B6 1098 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 53% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%National Airspace System
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
53% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 6,732 minutes out of 13,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 12,619 delay minutes reported on B6 1098.
Cancellations run at 3.65%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
23.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 950 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
Every one of the 356 flights under B6 1098 in the data flew MCO to LGA. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 356 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking B6 1098
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 1098: 3.65% of its 356 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
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A flight number here means JetBlue Airways’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.