Carrier route record
B6MCO→EWR
JetBlue Airways · Orlando to Newark
- Flights
- 1,298
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 20%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on MCO to EWR carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.3% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about two flights in three 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 1,298 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 4,019 at 78.6% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on MCO to EWR runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 109 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,231 completed flights
Avg delay
91 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.31%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.0%
Every carrier on MCO to EWR, 6,389 flights
These figures cover 1,298 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 17.5% 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 EWR
JetBlue flew 1,298 of the 6,389 flights on MCO to EWR, about 20% of it. Its 66.4% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 75.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 88.6% to JetBlue at 66.4%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 78.6% of the time; Spirit Airlines manages 68.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 886 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 186 | 88.6% | 61 min | 1.08% | A |
| United Airlines | 4,019 | 78.6% | 95 min | 2.36% | B |
| Spirit Airlines | 886 | 68.0% | 68 min | 6.43% | C− |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 1,298 | 66.4% | 91 min | 4.31% | C− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 6.4% 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 MCO to EWR
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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 34 points, against 11 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am23 flights—
- 8am–11am268 flights83.6%
- 11am–2pm152 flights72.7%
- 2pm–5pm369 flights65.4%
- 5pm–8pm396 flights55.2%
- 8pm–5am90 flights50.0%
Scale runs 40% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 50.0% on time, against 83.6% for the 8am–11am 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 396 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on MCO to EWR through the year
July is the worst month at 43.1% on time, 41 points below September, the best at 83.9%. 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. December was the busiest month here, with 135 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 73.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 53.2%, a spread of 20 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on MCO to EWR runs when it is late
When JetBlue on MCO to EWR is late it tends to be very late: 216 of its 414 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 109 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early260 flights21.1%
- Within 15 min557 flights45.2%
- 15–29 min late89 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late109 flights8.9%
- 1–2 hours late107 flights8.7%
- 2+ hours late109 flights8.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,231 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 383 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 42 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 73 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 EWR.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on MCO to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 May 2026, 10 hours 38 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2026 | 10 hours 38 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 September 2025 | 7 hours 32 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 12 June 2026 | 6 hours 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 20 June 2026 | 6 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 July 2026 | 6 hours 21 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 45% of the 38,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%National Airspace System
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 38,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 37,617 reported delay minutes.
45% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 17,000 minutes out of 38,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 4.31%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
17.5% 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 937 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 75.8% on time across 1,302 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,298 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 MCO to EWR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.31% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,231 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to EWR, every carrier
- JetBlue on EWR to MCO, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on MCO to EWR88.6%
- United Airlines on MCO to EWR78.6%
- Spirit Airlines on MCO to EWR68.0%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 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.