Carrier route record
B6MCO→BDL
JetBlue Airways · Orlando to Hartford
- Flights
- 1,000
- 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 MCO to BDL sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,000 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on MCO to BDL runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 64 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 975 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.30%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.0%
Every carrier on MCO to BDL, 1,867 flights
These figures cover 1,000 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.3% 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 BDL
JetBlue flew 1,000 of the 1,867 flights on MCO to BDL, most of the route. Its 70.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 71.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 73.2% to Southwest at 70.5%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 227 | 73.2% | 105 min | 2.64% | C |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 1,000 | 70.9% | 76 min | 2.30% | C |
| Southwest Airlines | 640 | 70.5% | 58 min | 1.72% | C |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on MCO to BDL
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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 39 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am123 flights92.5%
- 8am–11am135 flights80.3%
- 11am–2pm234 flights70.5%
- 2pm–5pm184 flights63.7%
- 5pm–8pm178 flights70.9%
- 8pm–5am146 flights53.2%
Scale runs 45% to 100%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 53.2% on time, against 92.5% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 234 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on MCO to BDL through the year
August is the worst month at 41.1% on time, 52 points below May, the best at 93.5%. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 116 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 77.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 65.0%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on MCO to BDL runs when it is late
The 284 late arrivals split 79 under half an hour, 95 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 110 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early196 flights20.1%
- Within 15 min495 flights50.8%
- 15–29 min late79 flights8.1%
- 30–59 min late95 flights9.7%
- 1–2 hours late55 flights5.6%
- 2+ hours late55 flights5.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 975 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
34 of 267 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 51 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 BDL.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on MCO to BDL
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 March 2026, 6 hours 49 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across March, July, June and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 March 2026 | 6 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 July 2026 | 6 hours 31 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 June 2026 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 July 2026 | 5 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 February 2026 | 5 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 22,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 22,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 21,504 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 92.5% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.30% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.20%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
11.3% 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 1,050 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 71.0% on time across 1,002 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,000 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 BDL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,000 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 70.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 975 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to BDL, every carrier
- JetBlue on BDL to MCO, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on MCO to BDL73.2%
- Southwest Airlines on MCO to BDL70.5%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.