Carrier route record
B6MCO→PVD
JetBlue Airways · Orlando to Providence
- Flights
- 702
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 44%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on MCO to PVD sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 702 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so JetBlue on MCO to PVD runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 75 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 690 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.71%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
73.0%
Every carrier on MCO to PVD, 1,603 flights
These figures cover 702 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on MCO to PVD
JetBlue flew 702 of the 1,603 flights on MCO to PVD, about 44% of it. Its 70.1% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 75.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 901 | 75.3% | 58 min | 1.22% | B |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 702 | 70.1% | 68 min | 1.71% | C |
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 26 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–8am—
- 8am–11am78 flights90.9%
- 11am–2pm206 flights67.7%
- 2pm–5pm54 flights72.2%
- 5pm–8pm292 flights65.2%
- 8pm–5am72 flights73.2%
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.9% of the time, against 65.2% for the evening window. That is 26 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 292 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on MCO to PVD through the year
December is the weak month at 59.7% on time, against 88.2% 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. May was the busiest month here, with 76 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 59.4%. 19 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 13,996 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 90.9% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.71% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,072 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.6% on time across 705 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 702 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 PVD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 702 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 70.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 690 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to PVD, every carrier
- JetBlue on PVD to MCO, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on MCO to PVD75.3%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.