Carrier route record
B6MCO→ALB
JetBlue Airways · Orlando to Albany
- Flights
- 395
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 39%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on MCO to ALB draws a C. 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 395 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on MCO to ALB runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 117 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 390 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.27%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
68.9%
Every carrier on MCO to ALB, 1,024 flights
These figures cover 395 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.9% 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 MCO to ALB
JetBlue flew 395 of the 1,024 flights on MCO to ALB, about 39% of it. Its 65.6% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 68.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 71.0% to JetBlue at 65.6%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 629 | 71.0% | 57 min | 1.27% | C |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 395 | 65.6% | 72 min | 1.27% | C |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on MCO to ALB
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Departure window
When JetBlue runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 395 flights.
- 5am–8am3 flights—
- 8am–11am15 flights—
- 11am–2pm15 flights—
- 2pm–5pm52 flights61.5%
- 5pm–8pm119 flights69.8%
- 8pm–5am191 flights60.8%
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 60.8% on time, against 69.8% for the 5pm–8pm 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 191 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on MCO to ALB through the year
July is the worst month at 45.2% on time, 45 points below May, the best at 90.3%. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 43 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 83.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 50.0%, a spread of 34 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on MCO to ALB runs when it is late
The 134 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 45 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 58 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early81 flights20.8%
- Within 15 min175 flights44.9%
- 15–29 min late31 flights7.9%
- 30–59 min late45 flights11.5%
- 1–2 hours late36 flights9.2%
- 2+ hours late22 flights5.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 390 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
18 of 128 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 24 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 ALB.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on MCO to ALB
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 August 2026, 4 hours 54 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2026 | 4 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 August 2026 | 4 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 August 2026 | 3 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 July 2026 | 3 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 November 2025 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 9,638 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,638 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 9,638 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.27% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
14.9% 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 1,073 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 83.5% on time across 395 flights, 18 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 18 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 395 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 MCO to ALB
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 395 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 65.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 390 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.