Flight profile · JetBlue
B6798
Orlando (MCO) to New York (LGA) · scheduled 5:40 PM – 8:29 PM
How B6798 performs
628 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on MCO → LGA, B6798 averaged about 4 operations a week (628 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
B6798 arrived on time 51.9% of the time, against 72.4% for all MCO → LGA flights, so this departure is 20.5 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against JetBlue’s own flights on this route it is 14.0 points worse.
B6798’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 6:45 PM earlier on, and around 7:15 PM more recently — a 30-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 628 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If B6798 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 B6798 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight's worst arrivals run unusually far past its typical one, a bigger gap than 99% of 12,358 comparable flight numbers.
A typical arrival is 12 min late, but the worst tenth run 137 minutes worse than that.
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.
Where B6798 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6798 | 51.9% | 3.03% | 12 min | 30.0% | 628 |
| JetBlue on MCO → LGA | 65.9% | 2.50% | -1 min | 16.4% | 4,600 |
| All MCO → LGA flights | 72.4% | 2.79% | -5 min | 12.2% | 16,344 |
B6798 cancelled 19 of 628 operations (3.03%), close to the 2.79% for MCO → LGA.
30.0% of B6798’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 12.2% across MCO → LGA, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
Why B6798 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 B6798 on MCO → LGA. 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 B6798 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, B6798 pushed back an average of 84 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 23 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into MCO: 505 of 609 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| B6798 | 34% | 88% | 28% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 69% | 9% |
70 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often B6798’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often B6798 left 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s.
Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft ranks the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
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 LGA?
B6798 pushes back an average of 49.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at LGA an average of 42.4 minutes late. The 6.7 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 23.3 minutes on the taxiways at MCO, 1.9 minutes longer than a typical MCO departure in the same hour.
On arrival at LGA, B6798 spends 9.8 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 1.6 minutes longer than a typical LGA arrival (8.2 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 32,911 MCO departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 467,477 arrivals at LGA. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves MCO
B6798 has one departure time, 5:40 PM, so this is what that hour at MCO is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 32,911 departures from MCO are scheduled in the 5 PM–6 PM hour over the period, against 510,306 across the whole day.
B6798 is scheduled out of MCO at 5:40 PM, in the 5 PM–6 PM bank. Departures from MCO in that hour arrive on time 63.0% of the time against 74.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 11.7 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
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.
149 min late
against a median of 12 min late
B6798 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 12 min late, but the worst tenth are 137 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 628 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B6598 | JetBlue | 82.1% | 8 min early | 1,069 |
| NK686 | Spirit Airlines | 70.6% | 4 min early | 610 |
| B6698 | JetBlue | 70.2% | 2 min early | 734 |
| B61098 | JetBlue | 60.1% | 5 min late | 1,132 |
| B6798 this flight | JetBlue | 51.9% | 12 min late | 628 |
| B6998 | JetBlue | 51.1% | 12 min late | 631 |
Among all 6 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, B6798 has the 5th highest on-time rate, 30.2 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 628 records of B6798 operating MCO → LGA, 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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