Carrier route record
B6LGA→MCO
JetBlue Airways · New York to Orlando
- Flights
- 1,207
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 23%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on LGA to MCO carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.4% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about two flights in three 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 1,207 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Spirit Airlines, flew 694 at 77.8% on time.
Spirit Airlines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 77.8% on time across 694 flights.
Key figures
On time
66.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,149 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.40%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
70.2%
Every carrier on LGA to MCO, 5,262 flights
These figures cover 1,207 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on LGA to MCO
JetBlue flew 1,207 of the 5,262 flights on LGA to MCO, about 23% of it. Its 66.1% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 70.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Spirit at 77.8% to Frontier at 60.0%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Spirit Airlines arrives on time 77.8% of the time; American Airlines manages 68.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 909 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlines | 694 | 77.8% | 85 min | 4.90% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines | 2,170 | 72.2% | 71 min | 4.42% | C− |
| American Airlines | 909 | 68.2% | 77 min | 3.19% | C− |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 1,207 | 66.1% | 83 min | 3.40% | C− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 282 | 60.0% | 109 min | 4.26% | D− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 4.9% 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 LGA to MCO
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 38 points, against 10 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am313 flights85.8%
- 8am–11am159 flights73.5%
- 11am–2pm94 flights80.2%
- 2pm–5pm388 flights52.6%
- 5pm–8pm46 flights67.4%
- 8pm–5am207 flights48.2%
Scale runs 40% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 48.2% on time, against 85.8% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 388 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on LGA to MCO through the year
July is the worst month at 54.1% on time, 30 points below September, the best at 84.1%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. July was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 73.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 56.7%. 16 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 32,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%National Airspace System
- 23%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 32,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 50 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 32,102 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 85.8% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.40%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 16.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 950 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg runs 64.4% on time across 1,205 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,207 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 LGA to MCO
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.40% 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. 1,149 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to MCO, every carrier
- JetBlue on MCO to LGA, the return leg
- Spirit Airlines on LGA to MCO77.8%
- Delta Air Lines on LGA to MCO72.2%
- American Airlines on LGA to MCO68.2%
- Frontier Airlines on LGA to MCO60.0%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- LaGuardia (LGA) 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.