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Carrier route record

B6FLL→MCO

JetBlue Airways · Fort Lauderdale to Orlando

Flights
209
Period
September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route
14%
Carriers
3
DGRADE

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.

JetBlue on FLL to MCO draws a D. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 209 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 629 at 86.9% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on FLL to MCO runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 132 extra late arrivals.

Key figures

On time

64.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 206 completed flights

Avg delay

70 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.44%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

77.0%

Every carrier on FLL to MCO, 1,450 flights

These figures cover 209 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.2% 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 FLL to MCO

JetBlue flew 209 of the 1,450 flights on FLL to MCO, about 14% of it. Its 64.1% on time is 13 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 86.9% to JetBlue at 64.1%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 86.9% of the time; Spirit Airlines manages 71.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 612 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on FLL to MCO
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Southwest Airlines62986.9%68 min1.43%A
Spirit Airlines61271.4%64 min1.31%C
JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample20964.1%70 min1.44%D

The spread between Southwest and Spirit is 16 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 16 more arrivals inside the on-time window.

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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 18 points, against 16 points between the best and worst carrier.

  • 5am–8am1 flights—
  • 8am–11am102 flights73.3%
  • 11am–2pm1 flights—
  • 2pm–5pm—
  • 5pm–8pm1 flights—
  • 8pm–5am104 flights54.9%

Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 54.9% on time, against 73.3% for the 8am–11am 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 104 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

JetBlue on FLL to MCO through the year

  • Apr–Jun 202683 flights75.9%
  • Jul–Sep 2026126 flights56.1%

Scale runs 50% to 80%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 64.1% on time across 209 flights.

Split by quarter, JetBlue on FLL to MCO logged 83 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 126 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 64.1% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 71.9% on time and Friday the weakest at 56.7%, a spread of 15 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late JetBlue on FLL to MCO runs when it is late

JetBlue on FLL to MCO often beats the schedule: 55 of 206 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 74 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.

  • 15+ min early55 flights26.7%
  • Within 15 min77 flights37.4%
  • 15–29 min late27 flights13.1%
  • 30–59 min late24 flights11.7%
  • 1–2 hours late10 flights4.9%
  • 2+ hours late13 flights6.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 206 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 76 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 5 made it up before arrival. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for JetBlue on FLL to MCO

The latest arrival of the period was on 23 May 2026, 6 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.

The latest arrivals of JetBlue on FLL to MCO in the period
DateArrived late byLargest filed cause
23 May 20266 hours 6 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
6 August 20265 hours 15 minutesCarrier
30 July 20264 hours 41 minutesNational Airspace System
10 August 20264 hours 14 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
29 August 20263 hours 50 minutesLate-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why JetBlue runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 5,203 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

  • Late-arriving aircraft
    52%
  • Carrier
    36%
  • National Airspace System
    9%
  • Extreme weather
    2%

52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,203 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 22 to one. The split is drawn from 5,203 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,895 of the 5,203 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.44% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

11.2% 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.

At 177 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 67.6% on time across 212 flights, 4 points above 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 4 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 209 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 FLL to MCO

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 209 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 64.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 206 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.