Carrier route record
B6BDL→MCO
JetBlue Airways · Hartford to Orlando
- Flights
- 1,013
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 54%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,013 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so JetBlue on BDL to MCO runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 54 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 983 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.17%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.3%
Every carrier on BDL to MCO, 1,892 flights
These figures cover 1,013 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.2% 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.
Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on BDL to MCO
JetBlue flew 1,013 of the 1,892 flights on BDL to MCO, most of the route. Its 72.2% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 79.5% to Spirit at 55.6%. Two 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 | 647 | 79.5% | 55 min | 1.24% | B |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 1,013 | 72.2% | 74 min | 2.17% | C |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 223 | 69.3% | 106 min | 2.24% | C |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 9 | 55.6% | 85 min | 0.00% | D+ |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on BDL to MCO
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 28 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–8am269 flights84.8%
- 8am–11am172 flights79.9%
- 11am–2pm114 flights78.0%
- 2pm–5pm288 flights62.5%
- 5pm–8pm140 flights57.2%
- 8pm–5am30 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 57.2% on time, against 84.8% 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 288 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 78.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 64.1%. 15 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. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 20,000 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.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%National Airspace System
- 20%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
45% 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 20,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 34 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 20,209 reported delay minutes.
34% 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 6,770 minutes out of 20,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 2.17% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.79%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.2% 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 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. 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 runs 73.6% on time across 1,011 flights, within about 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. 1,013 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 BDL to MCO
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,013 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 72.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 983 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 MCO79.5%
- Frontier Airlines on BDL to MCO69.3%
- 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.