Flight number record

B6 229

JetBlue Airways · Aguadilla to Orlando

Route: BQN → MCO
Departs: 05:01
Flights: 356
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 229, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 229 lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 356 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

On time

80.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights

Avg delay

79 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.97%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 356 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 229 flies

B6 229 flies BQN to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:01, used on 104 of 356 flights, with 08:30 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:01104 flights29.2%
Departs 08:3036 flights10.1%

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 05:01 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and B6 229 runs 9 points worse at 80.7%. 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 229 next to BQN to MCO

Every carrier on BQN to MCO combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 996 flights, so B6 229 is 2 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 565 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.4% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

B6 229 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 229thin sample	356	80.7%	79 min	1.97%	B
All JetBlue Airways on BQN–MCO	565	80.4%	79 min	2.12%	B
All carriers on BQN–MCO	996	78.6%	81 min	2.01%	B
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 229 quarter by quarter

B6 229 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 91.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 75.0%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 89 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 202586 flights75.0%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights79.8%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights91.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 229 ranged from 75.5% on Thursday to 86.3% on Friday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why B6 229 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 5,286 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
58%
Carrier
27%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
0%
Security
0%

58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 5,286 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 58 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 5,286 delay minutes reported on B6 229.

Cancellations sit at 1.97% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.56%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,129 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 356 flights under B6 229 in the data flew BQN to MCO. 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 229

For a booking, read B6 229 as 80.7% on time with 1.97% cancelled over 356 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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