Flight number record

B6 1098

JetBlue Airways · Orlando to New York

Route: MCO → LGA
Departs: 15:59
Flights: 357
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1098, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 1098 draws a D. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 357 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so B6 1098 runs 18 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 182 extra late arrivals.

On time

59.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights

Avg delay

86 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.52%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

20.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 357 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 20.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When B6 1098 flies

B6 1098 flies MCO to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:59, used on 63 of 357 flights, with 12:25 (57 flights) and 15:50 (53 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:5963 flights17.6%
Departs 12:2557 flights16.0%
Departs 15:5053 flights14.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 15:59 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and B6 1098 runs 13 points worse at 59.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

B6 1098 next to MCO to LGA

Every carrier on MCO to LGA combined arrived on time 68.3% of the time across 5,262 flights, so B6 1098 is 9 points behind it. JetBlue flew 1,205 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.4% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 13 points.

B6 1098 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 1098thin sample	357	59.4%	86 min	2.52%	D
All JetBlue Airways on MCO–LGA	1,205	64.4%	78 min	2.57%	D
All carriers on MCO–LGA	5,262	68.3%	79 min	3.84%	C−
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 1098 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter B6 1098 held fairly steady: 59.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 55.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 60.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 62.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights59.8%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights55.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights60.9%
Apr–Jun 202683 flights62.0%

Scale runs 45% to 65%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 1098 did best on Friday at 71.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 45.8%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 1098 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 57% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

National Airspace System
57%
Late-arriving aircraft
20%
Carrier
20%
Extreme weather
4%

57% 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 6,808 minutes out of 12,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 12,024 delay minutes reported on B6 1098.

Cancellations run at 2.52%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 20.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

Every one of the 357 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. 357 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: 2.52% of its 357 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.

Where to go next

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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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