Carrier route record
B6ALB→MCO
JetBlue Airways · Albany to Orlando
- Flights
- 423
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 40%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on ALB to MCO lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 55 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 423 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate JetBlue on ALB to MCO from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 415 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.18%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
78.2%
Every carrier on ALB to MCO, 1,054 flights
These figures cover 423 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on ALB to MCO
JetBlue flew 423 of the 1,054 flights on ALB to MCO, about 40% of it. Its 76.6% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 79.3% to JetBlue at 76.6%.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 631 | 79.3% | 53 min | 0.79% | B+ |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 423 | 76.6% | 55 min | 1.18% | B |
Departure window
When JetBlue runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 33 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am173 flights84.7%
- 8am–11am121 flights81.7%
- 11am–2pm36 flights66.7%
- 2pm–5pm32 flights71.0%
- 5pm–8pm61 flights51.7%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 51.7% on time, against 84.7% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 173 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on ALB to MCO through the year
August is the worst month at 52.9% on time, 47 points below June, the best at 100.0%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. August was the busiest month here, with 53 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.2%. 18 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 43% of the 5,314 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.
- 43%National Airspace System
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
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 2,288 minutes out of 5,314, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 5,314 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 84.7% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.18% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.71%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,073 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 70.6% on time across 423 flights, 6 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 423 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 JetBlue on ALB to MCO
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 423 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 76.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 415 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ALB to MCO, every carrier
- JetBlue on MCO to ALB, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on ALB to MCO79.3%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.