Carrier route record
B6BOS→MCO
JetBlue Airways · Boston to Orlando
- Flights
- 2,520
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 55%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on BOS to MCO carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.6% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about two flights in three arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 2,520 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 1,257 at 75.5% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on BOS to MCO runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 107 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,411 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.61%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.5%
Every carrier on BOS to MCO, 4,605 flights
These figures cover 2,520 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.6% 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 BOS to MCO
JetBlue flew 2,520 of the 4,605 flights on BOS to MCO, most of the route. Its 66.6% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 69.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 80.7% to Southwest at 50.0%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 75.5% of the time; Spirit Airlines manages 58.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 389 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 284 | 80.7% | 109 min | 2.82% | B |
| Delta Air Lines | 1,257 | 75.5% | 79 min | 2.23% | B |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 151 | 74.0% | 73 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 2,520 | 66.6% | 74 min | 3.61% | C− |
| Spirit Airlines | 389 | 58.5% | 82 min | 4.88% | D− |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 4 | 50.0% | 19 min | 0.00% | F+ |
Spirit Airlines cancels 4.9% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on BOS 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 32 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am353 flights81.7%
- 8am–11am504 flights76.5%
- 11am–2pm582 flights68.9%
- 2pm–5pm431 flights57.1%
- 5pm–8pm413 flights57.9%
- 8pm–5am237 flights49.6%
Scale runs 40% to 85%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 49.6% on time, against 81.7% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 582 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on BOS to MCO through the year
August is the worst month at 50.6% on time, 29 points below September, the best at 79.3%. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 274 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 53.8%, a spread of 25 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on BOS to MCO runs when it is late
JetBlue on BOS to MCO often beats the schedule: 615 of 2,411 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 805 late arrivals split 231 under half an hour, 245 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 329 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early615 flights25.5%
- Within 15 min991 flights41.1%
- 15–29 min late231 flights9.6%
- 30–59 min late245 flights10.2%
- 1–2 hours late177 flights7.3%
- 2+ hours late152 flights6.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 2,411 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
138 of 752 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. In the other direction, 191 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 BOS to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 February 2026, 8 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 February 2026 | 8 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 July 2026 | 6 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 August 2026 | 6 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 December 2025 | 6 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 July 2026 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 59,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 59,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 to one. The split is drawn from 59,487 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 81.7% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.61%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
13.6% 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 1,121 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 67.4% on time across 2,527 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.
The sample behind these figures is 2,520 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking JetBlue on BOS to MCO
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.61% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 2,411 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BOS to MCO, every carrier
- JetBlue on MCO to BOS, the return leg
- American Airlines on BOS to MCO80.7%
- Delta Air Lines on BOS to MCO75.5%
- Frontier Airlines on BOS to MCO74.0%
- Spirit Airlines on BOS to MCO58.5%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Boston Logan International (BOS) delay statistics
- 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.