Flight profile · JetBlue
B61527
Newark (EWR) to Orlando (MCO) · scheduled 10:30 AM – 8:42 PM
How B61527 performs
637 operations, July 2023 – May 2026.
B61527 arrived on time 69.3% of the time, against 76.4% for all EWR → MCO flights, so this departure is 7.1 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 3.9 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 637 operations, July 2023 – May 2026 · If B61527 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where B61527 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B61527 | 69.3% | 3.92% | -6 min | 11.5% | 637 |
| JetBlue on EWR → MCO | 73.2% | 2.92% | -6 min | 11.8% | 4,345 |
| All EWR → MCO flights | 76.4% | 2.70% | -9 min | 10.1% | 20,506 |
B61527 has cancelled 3.92% of its scheduled departures (25 of 637), against 2.70% for all EWR → MCO flights — this specific departure cancels 1.2 percentage points more often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about B61527 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – May 2026
Why B61527 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B61527 on EWR → MCO. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – May 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies B61527 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying B61527 came in 15 or more minutes late on 24% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into EWR just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 432 of 612 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| B61527 | 24% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 45 to 59 minutes. How often B61527’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – May 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves EWR late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MCO?
B61527 pushes back an average of 17.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at MCO an average of 11.9 minutes late. The 5.2 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 25.5 minutes on the taxiways at EWR, 1.5 minutes longer than a typical EWR departure in the same hour.
On arrival at MCO, B61527 spends 12.8 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is 1.9 minutes longer than a typical MCO arrival (10.9 min).
Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached MCO. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 23,655 departures from EWR scheduled in the clock hour B61527 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at MCO (498,229 flights), not just B61527’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – May 2026
The hour it leaves EWR
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. B61527 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 23,655 departures from EWR are scheduled in the 10 AM–11 AM hour over the period, against 387,621 across the whole day.
B61527 is scheduled out of EWR at 10:30 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from EWR in that hour arrive on time 82.3% of the time against 77.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.6 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from EWR to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – May 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
65 min late
against a median of 6 min early
B61527 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 6 min early, but the worst tenth are 71 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 637 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – May 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6927 | JetBlue | 86.7% | 10 min early | 1,025 |
| UA1344 | United Airlines | 79.4% | 9 min early | 613 |
| UA1739 | United Airlines | 78.8% | 10 min early | 664 |
| B6127 | JetBlue | 77.5% | 8 min early | 939 |
| UA1213 | United Airlines | 73.1% | 7 min early | 669 |
| B61527 this flight | JetBlue | 69.3% | 6 min early | 637 |
| UA1695 | United Airlines | 67.9% | 3 min early | 629 |
| B61827 | JetBlue | 63.2% | 1 min late | 799 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. B61527 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 637 records of B61527 operating EWR → MCO, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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