Carrier route record
B6ALB→MCO
JetBlue Airways · Albany to Orlando
- Flights
- 395
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 39%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on ALB to MCO lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That rests on 395 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, JetBlue's ALB to MCO record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 62 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 388 completed flights
Avg delay
52 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.77%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.1%
Every carrier on ALB to MCO, 1,021 flights
These figures cover 395 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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.
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Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on ALB to MCO
JetBlue flew 395 of the 1,021 flights on ALB to MCO, about 39% of it. Its 83.5% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from JetBlue at 83.5% to Southwest at 78.0%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 395 | 83.5% | 52 min | 1.77% | B |
| Southwest Airlines | 626 | 78.0% | 60 min | 0.80% | B+ |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on ALB to MCO
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Departure window
When JetBlue runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 395 flights.
- 5am–8am235 flights86.5%
- 8am–11am123 flights82.0%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm19 flights—
- 5pm–8pm17 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 86.5% on time for the 5am–8am window against 82.0% for 8am–11am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 235 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on ALB to MCO through the year
December is the weak month at 56.2% on time, against 100.0% in June. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. April was the busiest month here, with 43 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 94.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.2%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on ALB to MCO runs when it is late
JetBlue on ALB to MCO often beats the schedule: 135 of 388 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 64 late arrivals split 29 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early135 flights34.8%
- Within 15 min189 flights48.7%
- 15–29 min late29 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late22 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 388 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 35 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 35 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 MCO.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on ALB to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 July 2026, 5 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2026 | 5 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 April 2026 | 5 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 December 2025 | 3 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 February 2026 | 2 hours 8 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 27 December 2025 | 1 hour 41 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 43% of the 3,294 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%National Airspace System
- 38%Carrier
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,247 of the 3,294 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,294 reported delay minutes.
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 1,407 minutes out of 3,294, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 1.77% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 65.6% on time across 395 flights, 18 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 18 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 395 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. 395 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 83.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 388 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 MCO78.0%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
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.