Carrier route record

B6MCO→FLL

JetBlue Airways · Orlando to Fort Lauderdale

Flights: 212
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 15%
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 FLL draws a C+. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 212 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Spirit Airlines, flew 613 at 70.4% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on MCO to FLL runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 97 extra late arrivals.

On time

67.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 210 completed flights

Avg delay

89 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.47%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

69.6%

Every carrier on MCO to FLL, 1,453 flights

These figures cover 212 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.2% 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 FLL

JetBlue flew 212 of the 1,453 flights on MCO to FLL, about 15% of it. Its 67.6% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 69.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Spirit at 70.4% to JetBlue at 67.6%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: about a point separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on MCO to FLL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Spirit Airlines	613	70.4%	59 min	1.96%	C
Southwest Airlines	628	69.5%	53 min	0.80%	C+
JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample	212	67.6%	89 min	0.47%	C+

No carrier stands out. Spirit tops the table at 70.4%, about a point clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

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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 23 points, against about a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am4 flights—
8am–11am104 flights78.6%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm103 flights55.9%
8pm–5am1 flights—

Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 55.9% on time, against 78.6% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 104 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

JetBlue on MCO to FLL through the year

Apr–Jun 202684 flights81.9%
Jul–Sep 2026128 flights58.3%

Scale runs 50% to 85%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 67.6% on time across 212 flights.

Split by quarter, JetBlue on MCO to FLL logged 84 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 128 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 67.6% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 67.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 63.3%, a spread of 4 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late JetBlue on MCO to FLL runs when it is late

The 68 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 34 an hour or more.

15+ min early45 flights21.4%
Within 15 min97 flights46.2%
15–29 min late15 flights7.1%
30–59 min late19 flights9.0%
1–2 hours late19 flights9.0%
2+ hours late15 flights7.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 210 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 57 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 15 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 FLL.

The worst days

Worst days for JetBlue on MCO to FLL

The latest arrival of the period was on 14 July 2026, 6 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of JetBlue on MCO to FLL in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
14 July 2026	6 hours 14 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
6 August 2026	6 hours 8 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
27 June 2026	5 hours 17 minutes	Extreme weather
26 August 2026	4 hours 55 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
18 July 2026	4 hours 32 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why JetBlue runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 6,052 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
58%
Carrier
20%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
9%

58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,052 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 6,052 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 78.6% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.47%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

16.2% 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.

At 177 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 64.1% on time across 209 flights, 4 points below 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 4 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 212 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 FLL

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 212 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 67.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 210 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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