Carrier route record
F9MCO→BQN
Frontier Airlines · Orlando to Aguadilla
- Flights
- 448
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 44%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on MCO to BQN lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 448 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Frontier on MCO to BQN from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 439 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.56%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.1%
Every carrier on MCO to BQN, 1,018 flights
These figures cover 448 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Frontier against every carrier on MCO to BQN
Frontier flew 448 of the 1,018 flights on MCO to BQN, about 44% of it. Its 78.6% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 78.6% to JetBlue at 74.1%.
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 Airlines (this page) | 448 | 78.6% | 65 min | 1.56% | B |
| JetBlue Airways | 570 | 74.1% | 69 min | 2.11% | C |
Flight by flight
Frontier flight numbers on MCO to BQN
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Departure window
When Frontier runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am16 flights—
- 8am–11am73 flights89.0%
- 11am–2pm6 flights—
- 2pm–5pm24 flights—
- 5pm–8pm8 flights—
- 8pm–5am321 flights77.0%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 89.0% of the time, against 77.0% for the overnight window. That is 12 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 321 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on MCO to BQN through the year
July is the worst month at 63.8% on time, 30 points below November, 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. July was the busiest month here, with 48 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 68.0%, a spread of 21 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Frontier on MCO to BQN runs when it is late
Frontier on MCO to BQN often beats the schedule: 139 of 439 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 94 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 33 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 30 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early139 flights31.7%
- Within 15 min206 flights46.9%
- 15–29 min late31 flights7.1%
- 30–59 min late33 flights7.5%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights4.8%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 439 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 104 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Frontier on MCO to BQN
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 April 2026, 7 hours 5 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2026 | 7 hours 5 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 25 June 2026 | 6 hours 37 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 27 March 2026 | 6 hours 1 minute | National Airspace System |
| 27 December 2025 | 3 hours 39 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 4 June 2026 | 3 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 6,097 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 30%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,097 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 6,097 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 89.0% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.56% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.45%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,129 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 77.0% on time across 448 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 448 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 Frontier on MCO to BQN
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 448 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 78.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 439 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to BQN, every carrier
- Frontier on BQN to MCO, the return leg
- JetBlue Airways on MCO to BQN74.1%
- Frontier Airlines 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.