Flight number record

B6 2424

JetBlue Airways · Orlando to Washington

Route: MCO → DCA
Departs: 18:38
Flights: 353
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 2424, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 2424 earns a D, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 55.7% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 22 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average a little over an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 353 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so B6 2424 runs 22 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 219 extra late arrivals.

On time

55.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights

Avg delay

76 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.70%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

18.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 353 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.6% 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 2424 flies

B6 2424 flies MCO to DCA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:38, used on 53 of 353 flights, with 17:40 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 18:3853 flights15.0%
Departs 17:4040 flights11.3%

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 18:38 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and B6 2424 runs 13 points worse at 55.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

B6 2424 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 2424 is 13 points behind 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 trails by 17 points.

B6 2424 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 2424thin sample	353	55.7%	76 min	1.70%	D
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 2424 quarter by quarter

B6 2424 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 61.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 49.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 88 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 flights49.4%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights54.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights57.6%
Apr–Jun 202685 flights61.4%

Scale runs 40% to 65%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 2424 did best on Saturday at 62.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 46.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 2424 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 12,000 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
40%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
Carrier
24%
Extreme weather
3%
Security
0%

40% 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 4,690 minutes out of 12,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 11,585 delay minutes reported on B6 2424.

Cancellations sit at 1.70% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.57%.

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. 18.6% 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 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.

Every one of the 353 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. 353 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, B6 2424 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 18.6% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.

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.

Key figures