Route reliability record
BQN→MCO
Aguadilla to Orlando
- Flights
- 1,019
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 1,129 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,019 BQN to MCO flights, of which JetBlue Airways flew 571 at 81.4% on time.
Best time to fly BQN to MCO: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 95.9% of the time and Wednesday flights 86.3%, against 79.5% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 989 completed flights
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.55%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
JetBlue
81.4% on time across 571 flights
These figures cover 1,019 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on BQN to MCO
The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue Airways | 571 | 81.4% | 91 min | 2.80% | B |
| Frontier Airlines | 448 | 77.0% | 80 min | 2.23% | B |
No carrier stands out. JetBlue tops the table at 81.4%, 4 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
Flight by flight
Flights on BQN to MCO
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Aguadilla to Orlando
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. BQN → MCOAguadilla to Orlando | JetBlue Airways | 79.1% | 81.4% | 2.80% | 5am–8am, Fri | B6 229 05:01 |
| 2. BQN → MCOAguadilla to Orlando | Frontier Airlines | 75.3% | 77.0% | 2.23% | 11am–2pm, Wed | F9 1953 03:10 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 33 points, against 4 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am126 flights95.9%
- 8am–11am155 flights92.2%
- 11am–2pm95 flights81.7%
- 2pm–5pm15 flights—
- 5pm–8pm183 flights63.4%
- 8pm–5am445 flights76.4%
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 63.4% on time, against 95.9% 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 445 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter BQN to MCO by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On BQN to MCO, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 95.9% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 63.4%, a wide gap of 32.5 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am95.9%
- 8–11am92.2%
- 11am–2pm81.7%
- 2–5pm—
- 5–8pm63.4%
- 8pm–5am76.4%
best all US flightsScale 55% to 100%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 16 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
December is the weak month at 74.0% on time, against 90.2% in February. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 122 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 86.3% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 74.0%, a spread of 12 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 62% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 62%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 6%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
62% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 33 to one. The split is drawn from 17,372 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 95.9% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.55%, 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 actually costs
8.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,129 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 76.1% on time across 1,018 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,019 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.
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What to do with this
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,019 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 79.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 989 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
BQN to MCO questions
How often is BQN to MCO delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 20.5% of the 1,019 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
Which airline is most reliable on BQN to MCO?
JetBlue Airways leads at 81.4% on time across 571 flights. Frontier Airlines is at the other end on 77.0%, a gap of 4 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on BQN to MCO?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 95.9% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 63.4%, 33 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are December delays on BQN to MCO?
December is the weakest month at 74.0% on time, compared with 90.2% in February. Across the year that is 16 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to BQN — the return legseparate record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- JetBlue Airways on BQN to MCO81.4%
- Frontier Airlines on BQN to MCO77.0%
- ATL to MCO, a related route70.3%
- EWR to MCO, a related route77.9%
- ORD to MCO, a related route72.8%
- JetBlue Airways on-time record81.4%
- Frontier Airlines on-time record77.0%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. BQN to MCO and MCO to BQN are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.