Carrier route record
B6BDL→MCO
JetBlue Airways · Hartford to Orlando
- Flights
- 1,002
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 54%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on BDL to MCO sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,002 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on BDL to MCO runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 63 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 971 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.50%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.3%
Every carrier on BDL to MCO, 1,869 flights
These figures cover 1,002 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on BDL to MCO
JetBlue flew 1,002 of the 1,869 flights on BDL to MCO, most of the route. Its 71.0% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 78.3% to Frontier at 69.2%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 | 640 | 78.3% | 61 min | 1.09% | B |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 1,002 | 71.0% | 75 min | 2.50% | C |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 227 | 69.2% | 104 min | 2.64% | C |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on BDL to MCO
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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 30 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am269 flights84.4%
- 8am–11am172 flights79.9%
- 11am–2pm114 flights78.0%
- 2pm–5pm303 flights58.9%
- 5pm–8pm114 flights54.5%
- 8pm–5am30 flights—
Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 54.5% on time, against 84.4% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 303 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on BDL to MCO through the year
December is the weak month at 54.3% on time, against 97.1% in September. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 116 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 75.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 63.6%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on BDL to MCO runs when it is late
JetBlue on BDL to MCO often beats the schedule: 262 of 971 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 282 late arrivals split 97 under half an hour, 77 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 108 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early262 flights27.0%
- Within 15 min427 flights44.0%
- 15–29 min late97 flights10.0%
- 30–59 min late77 flights7.9%
- 1–2 hours late56 flights5.8%
- 2+ hours late52 flights5.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 971 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
34 of 214 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. In the other direction, 102 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 BDL to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 February 2026, 19 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 February 2026 | 19 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 August 2026 | 8 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 March 2026 | 7 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 January 2026 | 5 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 January 2026 | 5 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 21,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 20%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 21,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 27 to one. The split is drawn from 21,066 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 84.4% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.50%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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 stage length
What a delay here costs
11.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,050 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 runs 70.9% on time across 1,000 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,002 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
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,002 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 71.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 971 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BDL to MCO, every carrier
- JetBlue on MCO to BDL, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on BDL to MCO78.3%
- Frontier Airlines on BDL to MCO69.2%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.