Flight number record
B6 2424
JetBlue Airways · Orlando to Washington
- Route
- MCO → DCA
- Departs
- 17:40
- Flights
- 355
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 2424, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 2424 earns an F, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 54.9% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 22 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average a little over an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 355 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so B6 2424 runs 22 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 224 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
54.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.54%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
18.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 355 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When B6 2424 flies
B6 2424 flies MCO to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:40, used on 43 of 355 flights.
- Departs 17:4043 flights12.1%
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 17:40 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and B6 2424 runs 13 points worse at 54.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
B6 2424 next to MCO to DCA
Every carrier on MCO to DCA combined arrived on time 70.0% of the time across 4,592 flights, so B6 2424 is 15 points behind it. JetBlue flew 958 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.8% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 71.3%, which this flight trails by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 2424thin sample | 355 | 54.9% | 77 min | 2.54% | F |
| All JetBlue Airways on MCO–DCA | 958 | 64.8% | 72 min | 2.19% | D |
| All carriers on MCO–DCA | 4,592 | 70.0% | 74 min | 2.37% | C |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 240,615 | 71.3% | 77 min | 3.56% | C− |
Across the year
B6 2424 quarter by quarter
B6 2424 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 66.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 35.2%, a swing of 32 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 flights66.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights54.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights57.6%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights61.4%
- Jul–Sep 202658 flights35.2%
Scale runs 25% to 70%.
By weekday, B6 2424 did best on Thursday at 62.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 45.1%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late B6 2424 runs when it is late
The 155 late arrivals split 54 under half an hour, 37 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 64 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early33 flights9.6%
- Within 15 min156 flights45.3%
- 15–29 min late54 flights15.7%
- 30–59 min late37 flights10.8%
- 1–2 hours late31 flights9.0%
- 2+ hours late33 flights9.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 344 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 125 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 12 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 42 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 DCA.
The worst days
Worst days for B6 2424
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 June 2026, 8 hours 19 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 22 June 2026 | 8 hours 19 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 July 2026 | 5 hours 43 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 December 2025 | 5 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 June 2026 | 4 hours 41 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 1 August 2026 | 4 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why B6 2424 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 43% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%National Airspace System
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Carrier
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
43% 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 5,196 minutes out of 12,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 11,998 delay minutes reported on B6 2424.
Cancellations run at 2.54%, against 1.89% 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
18.6% 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 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.
Every one of the 355 flights under B6 2424 in the data flew MCO to DCA. 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. 355 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 2424
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 2424: 2.54% of its 355 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to DCA, every carrier and departure
- DCA to MCO, the return direction
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- JetBlue Airways 2024 on the same route86.7%
- Delta Air Lines 1003 on the same route81.2%
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- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) delay statistics
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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.