Flight number record

B6 969

JetBlue Airways · Richmond to Orlando

Route: RIC → MCO
Departs: 12:55
Flights: 320
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 969, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 969 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 320 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so B6 969 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 41 extra late arrivals.

On time

73.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 313 completed flights

Avg delay

88 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.88%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 320 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.5% 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 969 flies

B6 969 flies RIC to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:55, used on 45 of 320 flights, with 15:39 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:5545 flights14.1%
Departs 15:3932 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 12:55 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and B6 969 runs 5 points worse at 73.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

B6 969 next to RIC to MCO

Every carrier on RIC to MCO combined arrived on time 71.8% of the time across 1,202 flights, so B6 969 is 2 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 676 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.2% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, close to this flight's figure.

B6 969 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 969thin sample	320	73.5%	88 min	1.88%	C
All JetBlue Airways on RIC–MCO	676	74.2%	82 min	2.37%	C
All carriers on RIC–MCO	1,202	71.8%	78 min	2.00%	C
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 969 quarter by quarter

B6 969 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 81.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 52.0%, a swing of 29 points on roughly 80 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 202584 flights81.0%
Oct–Dec 202577 flights80.0%
Jan–Mar 202680 flights52.0%
Apr–Jun 202679 flights79.7%

Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 969 did best on Wednesday at 87.5% on time and worst on Monday at 56.5%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 31 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 969 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 7,286 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
55%
Carrier
29%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
0%

55% 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 7,286 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 55 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 7,286 delay minutes reported on B6 969.

Cancellations sit at 1.88% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.31%.

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. 11.5% 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 667 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 320 flights under B6 969 in the data flew RIC 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. 320 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 969

For a booking, read B6 969 as 73.5% on time with 1.88% cancelled over 320 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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