Flight profile · JetBlue
B652
Orlando (MCO) to Boston (BOS) · scheduled 1:35 PM – 4:39 PM
How B652 performs
618 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on MCO → BOS, B652 averaged about 4 operations a week (618 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
B652 arrived on time 79.6% of the time, against 72.5% for all MCO → BOS flights, so this departure is 7.1 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 10.6 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 618 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If B652 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How B652 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 92% of 12,152 comparable flight numbers.
79.6% on time for this specific departure, against 69.0% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B652 | 79.6% | 3.56% | -8 min | 9.8% | 618 |
| JetBlue on MCO → BOS | 69.0% | 2.50% | -2 min | 14.4% | 7,628 |
| All MCO → BOS flights | 72.5% | 2.17% | -5 min | 12.1% | 15,260 |
B652 has cancelled 3.56% of its scheduled departures (22 of 618), against 2.17% for all MCO → BOS flights — this specific departure cancels 1.4 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 B652 specifically, not about the route it flies.
9.8% of B652’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 12.1% across MCO → BOS, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
Why B652 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for B652 on MCO → BOS. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies B652 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying B652 came in 15 or more minutes late on 25% 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.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into MCO: 417 of 597 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| B652 | 25% |
| Network, same turn | 23% |
A long gap on the ground gives a late aircraft room to catch up before this flight pushes back.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 90 minutes to 3 hours. How often B652’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MCO late, does that still matter by the time it reaches BOS?
B652 pushes back an average of 12.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at BOS an average of 6.7 minutes late. The 5.8 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 22.4 minutes on the taxiways at MCO, 3.2 minutes longer than a typical MCO departure in the same hour.
On arrival at BOS, B652 spends 7.8 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 1.2 minutes shorter than a typical BOS arrival (9.0 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 24,599 MCO departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 454,075 arrivals at BOS. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves MCO
B652 has one departure time, 1:35 PM, so this is what that hour at MCO is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 24,599 departures from MCO are scheduled in the 1 PM–2 PM hour over the period, against 510,306 across the whole day.
B652 is scheduled out of MCO at 1:35 PM, in the 1 PM–2 PM bank. Departures from MCO in that hour arrive on time 73.2% of the time against 74.6% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour B652 leaves in is an ordinary one for MCO and explains nothing about its record either way.
Both airport figures cover every destination from MCO, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 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.
56 min late
against a median of 8 min early
B652 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 8 min early, but the worst tenth are 64 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 618 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL2436 | Delta Air Lines | 92.6% | 17 min early | 816 |
| B6552 | JetBlue | 80.0% | 7 min early | 791 |
| B652 this flight | JetBlue | 79.6% | 8 min early | 618 |
| B62052 | JetBlue | 57.2% | 7 min late | 1,092 |
| B61152 | JetBlue | 57.0% | 6 min late | 1,102 |
Among all 5 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, B652 has the 3rd highest on-time rate, 13.0 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 618 records of B652 operating MCO → BOS, 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 reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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