Flight number record
B6 2024
JetBlue Airways · Orlando to Washington
- Route
- MCO → DCA
- Departs
- 08:45
- Flights
- 264
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 2024, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 2024 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 264 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, B6 2024's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 93 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 260 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.14%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
3.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 264 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Schedule
When B6 2024 flies
B6 2024 flies MCO to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:45, used on 78 of 264 flights, with 09:00 (44 flights) and 07:40 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 08:4578 flights29.5%
- Departs 09:0044 flights16.7%
- Departs 07:4036 flights13.6%
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 08:45 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and B6 2024 runs 3 points better at 86.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
B6 2024 next to MCO to DCA
Every carrier on MCO to DCA combined arrived on time 68.8% of the time across 4,586 flights, so B6 2024 is 18 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 942 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.5% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 2024thin sample | 264 | 86.9% | 53 min | 1.14% | A |
| All JetBlue Airways on MCO–DCA | 942 | 64.5% | 71 min | 1.38% | D |
| All carriers on MCO–DCA | 4,586 | 68.8% | 78 min | 2.03% | C |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 234,468 | 72.7% | 76 min | 2.56% | C |
Across the year
B6 2024 quarter by quarter
B6 2024 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 93.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.0%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 66 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 202564 flights90.6%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights83.0%
- Jan–Mar 202632 flights75.0%
- Apr–Jun 202679 flights93.4%
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 2024 did best on Saturday at 97.4% on time and worst on Tuesday at 80.0%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why B6 2024 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 1,814 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.
- 47%Carrier
- 34%National Airspace System
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 853 of the 1,814 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,814 delay minutes reported on B6 2024.
Cancellations sit at 1.14% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.38%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 759 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including PBI to DCA (37), but none flew often enough under B6 2024 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MCO to DCA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 264 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 2024
For a booking, B6 2024 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 86.9% on time and 1.14% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to DCA, every carrier and departure
- DCA to MCO, the return direction
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.