Carrier route record
B6MCO→MHT
JetBlue Airways · Orlando to Manchester
- Flights
- 312
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 39%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on MCO to MHT lands a B, 3 points 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 a little over an hour on average. That rests on 312 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate JetBlue on MCO to MHT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 308 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.28%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.6%
Every carrier on MCO to MHT, 804 flights
These figures cover 312 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% 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 MHT
JetBlue flew 312 of the 804 flights on MCO to MHT, about 39% of it. Its 79.9% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from JetBlue at 79.9% to Southwest at 76.1%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample | 312 | 79.9% | 72 min | 1.28% | B |
| Southwest Airlines | 492 | 76.1% | 56 min | 0.20% | B+ |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on MCO to MHT
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Departure window
When JetBlue runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 312 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am81 flights83.5%
- 11am–2pm227 flights78.2%
- 2pm–5pm3 flights—
- 5pm–8pm1 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 78.2% on time against 83.5% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 227 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on MCO to MHT through the year
December is the weak month at 56.7% on time, against 93.5% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. October was the busiest month here, with 32 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.1%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on MCO to MHT runs when it is late
JetBlue on MCO to MHT often beats the schedule: 98 of 308 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 62 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early98 flights31.8%
- Within 15 min148 flights48.1%
- 15–29 min late22 flights7.1%
- 30–59 min late15 flights4.9%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights5.2%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 308 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 57 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on MCO to MHT
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 June 2026, 7 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2026 | 7 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 February 2026 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 January 2026 | 3 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 July 2026 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 4,450 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,450 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 58 to one. The split is drawn from 4,450 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 83.5% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.28% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.1% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,142 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 82.0% on time across 312 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. 312 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 MHT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 312 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 79.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 308 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.