Carrier route record
B6MHT→MCO
JetBlue Airways · Manchester to Orlando
- 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 MHT to MCO lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six 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 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, JetBlue's MHT to MCO record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 47 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 306 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.60%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.6%
Every carrier on MHT to MCO, 804 flights
These figures cover 312 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on MHT to MCO
JetBlue flew 312 of the 804 flights on MHT to MCO, about 39% of it. Its 82.0% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from JetBlue at 82.0% to Southwest at 78.1%.
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 | 82.0% | 72 min | 1.60% | B |
| Southwest Airlines | 492 | 78.1% | 59 min | 0.41% | B+ |
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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–8am205 flights81.5%
- 8am–11am3 flights—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm102 flights83.2%
- 5pm–8pm2 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 2pm–5pm window is the strongest at 83.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 2 points.
Across the year
JetBlue on MHT to MCO through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights76.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.5%
- Apr–Jun 202692 flights91.2%
- Jul–Sep 20268 flights—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 82.0% on time across 312 flights.
JetBlue on MHT to MCO did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 91.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.5%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 78 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 91.1% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 74.4%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on MHT to MCO runs when it is late
JetBlue on MHT to MCO often beats the schedule: 123 of 306 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 55 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 22 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early123 flights40.2%
- Within 15 min128 flights41.8%
- 15–29 min late20 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late13 flights4.2%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights4.6%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 306 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 37 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 27 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 MCO.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on MHT to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 September 2025, 6 hours 35 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2025 | 6 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 June 2026 | 6 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 September 2025 | 5 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 January 2026 | 4 hours 10 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 4 July 2026 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,946 reported delay minutes.
- 42%National Airspace System
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,946 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 16 to one. The split is drawn from 3,946 reported delay minutes.
42% 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 1,642 minutes out of 3,946, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 1.60% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.32%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.2% 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 79.9% 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 MHT to MCO
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 82.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 306 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MHT to MCO, every carrier
- JetBlue on MCO to MHT, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on MHT to MCO78.1%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
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.