Carrier route record
F9MCO→BQN
Frontier Airlines · Orlando to Aguadilla
- Flights
- 431
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on MCO to BQN lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 431 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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
78.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 423 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.62%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
73.5%
Every carrier on MCO to BQN, 995 flights
These figures cover 431 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.
Carrier by carrier
Frontier against every carrier on MCO to BQN
Frontier flew 431 of the 995 flights on MCO to BQN, about 43% of it. Its 78.0% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 78.0% to JetBlue at 70.1%.
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) | 431 | 78.0% | 68 min | 1.62% | B |
| JetBlue Airways | 564 | 70.1% | 72 min | 1.42% | C |
Flight by flight
Frontier flight numbers on MCO to BQN
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 14 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am27 flights—
- 8am–11am45 flights91.1%
- 11am–2pm6 flights—
- 2pm–5pm24 flights—
- 5pm–8pm8 flights—
- 8pm–5am321 flights76.8%
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 91.1% of the time, against 76.8% for the overnight window. That is 14 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
November is the best month on the calendar at 93.5% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. June was the busiest month here, with 47 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.2%. 20 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
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 6,342 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Carrier
- 30%National Airspace System
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,571 of the 6,342 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,342 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.62% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.23%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over 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. 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 76.3% on time across 431 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. 431 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. 431 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 78.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 423 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.