Flight number record
B6 883
JetBlue Airways · New York to Orlando
- Route
- JFK → MCO
- Departs
- 09:29
- Flights
- 349
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 883, check with JetBlue Airways.
B6 883 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so B6 883 runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 79 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 337 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.87%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
12.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 349 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.2% 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 883 flies
B6 883 flies JFK to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:29, used on 39 of 349 flights, with 09:45 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 09:2939 flights11.2%
- Departs 09:4535 flights10.0%
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 09:29 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and B6 883 runs 14 points worse at 69.7%. 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 883 next to JFK to MCO
Every carrier on JFK to MCO combined arrived on time 73.7% of the time across 4,887 flights, so B6 883 is 4 points behind it. JetBlue flew 2,614 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.8% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6 883thin sample | 349 | 69.7% | 75 min | 2.87% | C |
| All JetBlue Airways on JFK–MCO | 2,614 | 70.8% | 78 min | 3.10% | C− |
| All carriers on JFK–MCO | 4,887 | 73.7% | 75 min | 2.93% | C |
| JetBlue Airways, whole network | 234,468 | 72.7% | 76 min | 2.56% | C |
Across the year
B6 883 quarter by quarter
B6 883 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 93.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 51.1%, a swing of 42 points on roughly 87 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 202592 flights51.1%
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights59.0%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights73.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.4%
Scale runs 45% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, B6 883 did best on Tuesday at 76.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 56.5%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why B6 883 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 44% of the 7,649 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.
- 44%Carrier
- 29%National Airspace System
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, 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 3,397 of the 7,649 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,649 delay minutes reported on B6 883.
Cancellations run at 2.87%, against 1.81% 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.2% 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 944 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 349 flights under B6 883 in the data flew JFK 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. 349 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 883
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on B6 883: 2.87% of its 349 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
- JFK to MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to JFK, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2019 on the same route78.1%
- Delta Air Lines 1740 on the same route66.9%
- JetBlue Airways 83 on the same route67.7%
- JetBlue Airways 183 on the same route81.9%
- Frontier Airlines 4871 on the same route71.5%
- JetBlue Airways 383 on the same route65.3%
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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.