Carrier route record
B6EWR→MCO
JetBlue Airways · Newark to Orlando
- Flights
- 1,302
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 20%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on EWR to MCO carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.4% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,302 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 4,019 at 79.8% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate JetBlue on EWR 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
75.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,240 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.38%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.9%
Every carrier on EWR to MCO, 6,391 flights
These figures cover 1,302 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.6% 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 EWR to MCO
JetBlue flew 1,302 of the 6,391 flights on EWR to MCO, about 20% of it. Its 75.8% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 81.9% to Spirit at 71.3%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 79.8% of the time; Spirit Airlines manages 71.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 884 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 186 | 81.9% | 127 min | 1.08% | B |
| United Airlines | 4,019 | 79.8% | 77 min | 2.21% | B |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 1,302 | 75.8% | 81 min | 4.38% | B− |
| Spirit Airlines | 884 | 71.3% | 84 min | 6.45% | C− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 6.5% 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 EWR 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 27 points, against 9 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am357 flights89.9%
- 8am–11am148 flights74.5%
- 11am–2pm243 flights75.5%
- 2pm–5pm141 flights68.9%
- 5pm–8pm303 flights62.7%
- 8pm–5am110 flights74.8%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 62.7% on time, against 89.9% 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 357 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on EWR to MCO through the year
December is the weak month at 57.1% on time, against 89.1% in May. 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. December was the busiest month here, with 137 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 82.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.0%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on EWR to MCO runs when it is late
JetBlue on EWR to MCO often beats the schedule: 423 of 1,240 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 300 late arrivals split 87 under half an hour, 94 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 119 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early423 flights34.1%
- Within 15 min517 flights41.7%
- 15–29 min late87 flights7.0%
- 30–59 min late94 flights7.6%
- 1–2 hours late53 flights4.3%
- 2+ hours late66 flights5.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,240 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
63 of 267 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 96 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 EWR to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 July 2026, 9 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across July, December, September, October and November, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2026 | 9 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 7 hours 30 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 4 September 2025 | 7 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 October 2025 | 6 hours 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 9 November 2025 | 6 hours 29 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 24,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 16%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 24,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 24,376 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 89.9% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.38%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 25 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
9.6% 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 937 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 66.4% on time across 1,298 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,302 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 EWR to MCO
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.38% 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. 1,240 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to MCO, every carrier
- JetBlue on MCO to EWR, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on EWR to MCO81.9%
- United Airlines on EWR to MCO79.8%
- Spirit Airlines on EWR to MCO71.3%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 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.