Carrier route record
B6LGA→MCO
JetBlue Airways · New York to Orlando
- Flights
- 1,206
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 23%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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: 4.8% 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 1,206 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Spirit Airlines, flew 544 at 75.2% on time.
Spirit Airlines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 75.2% on time across 544 flights.
Key figures
On time
68.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,135 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.81%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
70.1%
Every carrier on LGA to MCO, 5,149 flights
These figures cover 1,206 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.4% 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 LGA to MCO
JetBlue flew 1,206 of the 5,149 flights on LGA to MCO, about 23% of it. Its 68.0% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 70.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Spirit at 75.2% to Frontier at 56.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The three carriers here are closely matched: 6 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlines | 544 | 75.2% | 82 min | 5.88% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines | 2,161 | 72.4% | 70 min | 4.58% | C− |
| American Airlines | 899 | 69.4% | 77 min | 3.00% | C |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 1,206 | 68.0% | 83 min | 4.81% | C− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 339 | 56.1% | 127 min | 7.37% | D− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 5.9% 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
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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 41 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am314 flights85.8%
- 8am–11am158 flights79.3%
- 11am–2pm94 flights80.2%
- 2pm–5pm326 flights59.2%
- 5pm–8pm54 flights69.8%
- 8pm–5am260 flights44.4%
Scale runs 35% to 90%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 44.4% 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 326 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on LGA to MCO through the year
December is the weak month at 56.1% on time, against 84.1% in September. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 75.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 56.7%, a spread of 18 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on LGA to MCO runs when it is late
JetBlue on LGA to MCO often beats the schedule: 302 of 1,135 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 363 late arrivals split 92 under half an hour, 96 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 175 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early302 flights26.6%
- Within 15 min470 flights41.4%
- 15–29 min late92 flights8.1%
- 30–59 min late96 flights8.5%
- 1–2 hours late107 flights9.4%
- 2+ hours late68 flights6.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,135 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
48 of 342 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 69 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 LGA to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 November 2025, 13 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across November, June, August, March and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2025 | 13 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 12 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 August 2026 | 8 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 March 2026 | 7 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 July 2026 | 7 hours 13 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 30,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%National Airspace System
- 17%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
59% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 30,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 32 to one. The split is drawn from 30,121 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 4.81%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
15.4% 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 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 61.2% on time across 1,204 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,206 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 4.81% 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. 1,135 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 MCO75.2%
- Delta Air Lines on LGA to MCO72.4%
- American Airlines on LGA to MCO69.4%
- Frontier Airlines on LGA to MCO56.1%
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.