Carrier route record
B6MCO→LGA
JetBlue Airways · Orlando to New York
- Flights
- 1,204
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 23%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on MCO to LGA carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.1% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, a little over half of flights arrive on time, worth a D− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,204 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 2,162 at 75.7% on time.
Delta Air Lines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 75.7% on time across 2,162 flights.
Key figures
On time
61.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,148 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.07%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
67.5%
Every carrier on MCO to LGA, 5,149 flights
These figures cover 1,204 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.4% 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 LGA
JetBlue flew 1,204 of the 5,149 flights on MCO to LGA, about 23% of it. Its 61.2% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 67.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 75.7% to American at 58.4%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 75.7% of the time; American Airlines manages 58.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 901 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 2,162 | 75.7% | 75 min | 4.53% | B− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 338 | 68.8% | 69 min | 4.14% | C− |
| Spirit Airlines | 544 | 63.5% | 68 min | 6.07% | D− |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 1,204 | 61.2% | 82 min | 4.07% | D− |
| American Airlines | 901 | 58.4% | 101 min | 3.22% | D− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 6.1% 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 LGA
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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 49 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am79 flights92.3%
- 8am–11am144 flights80.9%
- 11am–2pm351 flights62.8%
- 2pm–5pm212 flights67.7%
- 5pm–8pm418 flights43.6%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 35% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 43.6% on time, against 92.3% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 418 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on MCO to LGA through the year
August is the worst month at 44.2% on time, 43 points below September, the best at 86.9%. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 68.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 51.8%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on MCO to LGA runs when it is late
When JetBlue on MCO to LGA is late it tends to be very late: 223 of its 445 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 100 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early187 flights16.3%
- Within 15 min516 flights44.9%
- 15–29 min late109 flights9.5%
- 30–59 min late113 flights9.8%
- 1–2 hours late123 flights10.7%
- 2+ hours late100 flights8.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,148 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 396 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 32 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 81 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 LGA.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on MCO to LGA
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 July 2026, 11 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. Four of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2026 | 11 hours 22 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 July 2026 | 7 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 July 2026 | 7 hours 6 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 July 2026 | 6 hours 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 October 2025 | 6 hours 43 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 48% of the 36,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%National Airspace System
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
48% 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 18,000 minutes out of 36,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 36,309 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 92.3% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.07%, 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
19.4% 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 950 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 68.0% on time across 1,206 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,204 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 LGA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.07% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,148 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to LGA, every carrier
- JetBlue on LGA to MCO, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on MCO to LGA75.7%
- Frontier Airlines on MCO to LGA68.8%
- Spirit Airlines on MCO to LGA63.5%
- American Airlines on MCO to LGA58.4%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) 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.