Carrier route record
F9BQN→MCO
Frontier Airlines · Aguadilla to Orlando
- Flights
- 448
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 44%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on BQN to MCO lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 448 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Frontier on BQN to MCO from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 435 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.23%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.5%
Every carrier on BQN to MCO, 1,019 flights
These figures cover 448 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Frontier against every carrier on BQN to MCO
Frontier flew 448 of the 1,019 flights on BQN to MCO, about 44% of it. Its 77.0% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from JetBlue at 81.4% to Frontier at 77.0%.
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 | 571 | 81.4% | 91 min | 2.80% | B |
| Frontier Airlines (this page) | 448 | 77.0% | 80 min | 2.23% | B |
Flight by flight
Frontier flight numbers on BQN to MCO
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Departure window
When Frontier 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 448 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm89 flights82.8%
- 2pm–5pm6 flights—
- 5pm–8pm24 flights—
- 8pm–5am329 flights76.6%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 82.8% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 76.6%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 329 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on BQN to MCO through the year
November is the best month on the calendar at 96.8% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. July was the busiest month here, with 48 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.5% on time and Monday the weakest at 70.7%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on BQN to MCO runs when it is late
Frontier on BQN to MCO often beats the schedule: 169 of 435 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 100 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 31 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 43 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early169 flights38.9%
- Within 15 min166 flights38.2%
- 15–29 min late26 flights6.0%
- 30–59 min late31 flights7.1%
- 1–2 hours late31 flights7.1%
- 2+ hours late12 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 435 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 114 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on BQN to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 December 2025, 16 hours 20 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16 December 2025 | 16 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 April 2026 | 7 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 June 2026 | 6 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 March 2026 | 5 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 December 2025 | 3 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 7,957 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 5%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,957 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 29 to one. The split is drawn from 7,957 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.23% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.67%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.9% 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 1,129 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 runs 78.6% on time across 448 flights, within 2 points 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. 448 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 Frontier on BQN to MCO
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 448 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 77.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 435 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.