Flight number record
B6 229
JetBlue Airways · Aguadilla to Orlando
- Route
- BQN → MCO
- Departs
- 05:01
- Flights
- 362
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 229, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 229 lands a B−, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights
Avg delay
97 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.04%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 362 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 362 flights.
- Departs 05:01104 flights28.7%
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 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 8 points worse at 80.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
B6 229 next to BQN to MCO
Every carrier on BQN to MCO combined arrived on time 79.5% of the time across 1,019 flights, so B6 229 is about level with it. JetBlue flew 571 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.4% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 229thin sample | 362 | 80.9% | 97 min | 3.04% | B− |
| All JetBlue Airways on BQN–MCO | 571 | 81.4% | 91 min | 2.80% | B |
| All carriers on BQN–MCO | 1,019 | 79.5% | 86 min | 2.55% | B |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | 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 2026 at 72.4%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 72 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 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights79.8%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights91.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights72.4%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
By weekday, B6 229 did best on Friday at 90.2% on time and worst on Thursday at 76.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 229 runs when it is late
B6 229 often beats the schedule: 117 of 351 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 67 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 31 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early117 flights33.3%
- Within 15 min167 flights47.6%
- 15–29 min late24 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights4.6%
- 2+ hours late15 flights4.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 351 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 62 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. Only 7 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 229
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 February 2026, 13 hours 45 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across February, August, June, May and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 February 2026 | 13 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 August 2026 | 13 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 June 2026 | 7 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 May 2026 | 4 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 September 2025 | 3 hours 54 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why B6 229 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 6,474 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,474 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 48 to one. The split is drawn from 6,474 delay minutes reported on B6 229.
Cancellations run at 3.04%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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
8.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, 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.
Every one of the 362 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. 362 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, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 229: 3.04% of its 362 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
- BQN to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to BQN, the return direction
- Frontier Airlines 1953 on the same route76.3%
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- JetBlue Airways on-time record
- Every JetBlue Airways flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.