Carrier route record
B6JFK→MCO
JetBlue Airways · New York to Orlando
- Flights
- 2,592
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 54%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on JFK 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, about seven flights in ten 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 2,592 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on JFK to MCO runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 57 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,467 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.44%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.7%
Every carrier on JFK to MCO, 4,804 flights
These figures cover 2,592 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.6% 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 JFK to MCO
JetBlue flew 2,592 of the 4,804 flights on JFK to MCO, most of the route. Its 71.6% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 76.2% to JetBlue at 71.6%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 1,980 | 76.2% | 71 min | 3.23% | B− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 232 | 75.9% | 75 min | 1.72% | B |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 2,592 | 71.6% | 84 min | 4.44% | C− |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on JFK 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 34 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am414 flights88.0%
- 8am–11am528 flights81.3%
- 11am–2pm442 flights75.7%
- 2pm–5pm328 flights65.5%
- 5pm–8pm522 flights60.4%
- 8pm–5am358 flights54.1%
Scale runs 45% to 95%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 54.1% on time, against 88.0% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 528 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on JFK to MCO through the year
December is the weak month at 56.1% on time, against 86.3% 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. April was the busiest month here, with 278 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 61.1%, a spread of 18 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on JFK to MCO runs when it is late
JetBlue on JFK to MCO often beats the schedule: 822 of 2,467 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 701 late arrivals split 181 under half an hour, 208 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 312 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early822 flights33.3%
- Within 15 min944 flights38.3%
- 15–29 min late181 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late208 flights8.4%
- 1–2 hours late167 flights6.8%
- 2+ hours late145 flights5.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 2,467 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
157 of 731 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. In the other direction, 127 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 JFK to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 December 2025, 16 hours 31 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Four of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 December 2025 | 16 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 December 2025 | 13 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 11 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 December 2025 | 10 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 November 2025 | 9 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 59,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
45% 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 16 to one. The split is drawn from 59,056 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 88.0% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.44%, 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
12.6% 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 944 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 71.5% on time across 2,600 flights, within half 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 2,592 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 JFK to MCO
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.44% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 2,467 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- JFK to MCO, every carrier
- JetBlue on MCO to JFK, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on JFK to MCO76.2%
- Frontier Airlines on JFK to MCO75.9%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) 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.